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title: To whom Cuchullain; ‘Fergus, terms there be, Other, and fitter. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: To whom Cuchullain; ‘Fergus, terms there be, Other, and fitter. Who acts: terms. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 42

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To whom Cuchullain; ‘Fergus, terms there be, Other, and fitter.

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**Who acts:** terms · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Fergus

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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 (terms), 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:pg78491:12:44
# text = To whom Cuchullain; ‘Fergus, terms there be, Other, and fitter.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
3	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	fitter	fit	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | infinitive | terms | Fergus *not said here* |  |  |  | other *property* | tree rules |

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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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