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title: Stern of brow The Firbolg answered; ‘Friends we were; not peers: The… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Stern of brow The Firbolg answered; ‘Friends we were; not peers: The younger thou. ’ Who acts: Stern. 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 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 13, sentence 121

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Stern of brow The Firbolg answered; ‘Friends we were; not peers: The younger thou. ’

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**Who acts:** Stern · **What happens:** answer · **To what, where:** Friends

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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 (Stern), 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:pg78491:13:123
# text = Stern of brow The Firbolg answered; ‘Friends we were; not peers: The younger thou. ’
1	Stern	stern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Firbolg	Firbolg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	peers	peer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Stern of brow | Friends |  |  |  | the Firbolg *nsubj*; peers *parataxis* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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