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title: Ferdīa dies--thus much mine art foreshews-- Then I, since magic spel… — 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 71

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Ferdīa dies--thus much mine art foreshews-- Then I, since magic spells have puissance most Upon a soul depressed and body sick, Fall on him with my seven and twenty sons, Magicians all.

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**Who acts:** Ferdīa, mine, magic spells · **What happens:** die, foreshew, have, fall · **To what, where:** puissance

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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 (Ferdīa, mine, magic spells), 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:pg78491:12:73
# text = Ferdīa dies--thus much mine art foreshews-- Then I, since magic spells have puissance most Upon a soul depressed and body sick, Fall on him with my seven and twenty sons, Magicians all.
1	Ferdīa	Ferdīa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dies	die	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	much	much	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	foreshews	foreshew	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	puissance	puissance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	17	nmod	_	_
19	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
22	depressed	depressed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obl	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
31	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
32	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	32	conj	_	_
35	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	Magicians	Magician	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
38	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	37	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | present | Ferdīa |  |  |  |  | I *conj* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **foreshew** |  | mine |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | present | magic spells | puissance  most upon a soul |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puissance=Patient |
| 4 | **fall** | infinitive | magic spells *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on Ferdīa; with my seven sons and Magicians | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on he=Location |

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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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