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title: In the outer Ailill marked My sword, that morning thither sent, a lo… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the outer Ailill marked My sword, that morning thither sent, a loan, For Meave had vowed with braided gems, her boast, To out-brave its hilt. Who acts: morning, Meave. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12, with its
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 34

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In the outer Ailill marked My sword, that morning thither sent, a loan, For Meave had vowed with braided gems, her boast, To out-brave its hilt.

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**Who acts:** morning, Meave · **What happens:** mark, send, vow, braid, boast · **To what, where:** sword, outer Ailill, boast

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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: who acts (morning, Meave), 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:pg78491:12:36
# text = In the outer Ailill marked My sword, that morning thither sent, a loan, For Meave had vowed with braided gems, her boast, To out-brave its hilt.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Ailill	Ailill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
11	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	loan	loan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	vowed	vow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	braided	braid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	amod	_	_
23	gems	gem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	boast	boast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	To	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	out	out	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	parataxis	_	_
32	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	hilt	hilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | past |  | My sword and a loan |  | the outer Ailill |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: agent=Agent sword=Theme in ailill=Destination |
| 2 | **send** | past | that morning *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thither *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **vow** | past · perfect | Meave | Meave's boast |  |  |  | with braided gems | tree rules |
| 4 | **braid** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **boast** |  | Meave |  |  |  |  |  | nom boast «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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