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title: Ailill from afar Furtively followed, stung by jealous spleen. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 32

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Ailill from afar Furtively followed, stung by jealous spleen.

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**What happens:** follow, sting

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This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:12:34
# text = Ailill from afar Furtively followed, stung by jealous spleen.
1	Ailill	Ailill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	Furtively	furtively	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	stung	sting	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	spleen	spleen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | furtively *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **sting** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | jealous spleen *obl:agent* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Project Gutenberg book 78491 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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