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description: Then cried Ferdīa, stationed where huge trees Shut out unwelcome vision: ‘For a bribe Thou seest these portents, singing of my death!’ Who acts: huge trees, Thou, my. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13, with its dep
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 105

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Then cried Ferdīa, stationed where huge trees Shut out unwelcome vision: ‘For a bribe Thou seest these portents, singing of my death!’

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**Who acts:** huge trees, Thou, my · **What happens:** cry, station, shut out, see, sing, die · **To what, where:** unwelcome vision, portents

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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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (huge trees, Thou, my), 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:pg78491:13:107
# text = Then cried Ferdīa, stationed where huge trees Shut out unwelcome vision: ‘For a bribe Thou seest these portents, singing of my death!’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Ferdīa	Ferdīa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	stationed	station	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
6	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	advmod	_	_
7	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	Shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	out	out	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	unwelcome	unwelcome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	For	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bribe	bribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
18	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
19	seest	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	portents	portent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  |  |  |  | then | Ferdīa *flat* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **station** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shut out** | participle | huge trees | unwelcome vision |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent vision=Patient |
| 4 | **see** | present | Thou | this portents |  |  |  | for a bribe | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer portent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | Thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of my death | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **die** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event 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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