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title: In graver mood At parting Fergus spake; ‘For thee unmeet That pact o… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In graver mood At parting Fergus spake; ‘For thee unmeet That pact of Meave, though not for her: but thou Conceal not, know’st thou meeter terms, and fit?’ Who acts: thou. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12, with it
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 41

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In graver mood At parting Fergus spake; ‘For thee unmeet That pact of Meave, though not for her: but thou Conceal not, know’st thou meeter terms, and fit?’

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**Who acts:** thou · **What happens:** not conceal, know'st, fit · **To what, where:** thou, graver mood

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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 (thou), 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:pg78491:12:43
# text = In graver mood At parting Fergus spake; ‘For thee unmeet That pact of Meave, though not for her: but thou Conceal not, know’st thou meeter terms, and fit?’
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	graver	grave	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	At	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	parting	parting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	For	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
12	unmeet	unmeet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
13	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	pact	pact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nsubj	_	_
25	Conceal	conceal	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
26	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	know’st	know'st	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
29	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	obj	_	_
30	meeter	meet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	31	amod	_	_
31	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	fit	fit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **conceal** | present | thou |  |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **know'st** | infinitive | thou *not said here* | thou |  |  |  | meeter terms *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fit** | infinitive | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=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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