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title: On the morn Fergus these things narrated to the chiefs In synod met. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: On the morn Fergus these things narrated to the chiefs In synod met. Who acts: things. 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 44

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On the morn Fergus these things narrated to the chiefs In synod met.

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**Who acts:** things · **What happens:** narrate, meet · **To what, where:** things, synod, morn

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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 (things), 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:pg78491:12:46
# text = On the morn Fergus these things narrated to the chiefs In synod met.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	morn	morn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
7	narrated	narrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:agent	_	_
11	In	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	synod	synod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **narrate** *speech: other* | participle |  | this things *not said here* |  | synod |  | the chiefs *obl:agent* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **meet** | past | this things |  |  | the morn |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: 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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