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title: Ferdīa, vow thy vow henceforth to maids! — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ferdīa, vow thy vow henceforth to maids! Who acts: Ferdīa, thy. 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 135

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Ferdīa, vow thy vow henceforth to maids!

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**Who acts:** Ferdīa, thy · **What happens:** vow · **To what, where:** vow

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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 (Ferdīa, thy), 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:pg78491:13:137
# text = Ferdīa, vow thy vow henceforth to maids!
1	Ferdīa	Ferdīa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	vow	vow	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	vow	vow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	henceforth	henceforth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	maids	maid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vow** | present | Ferdīa | thy vow |  |  |  | to maids; henceforth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **vow** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom vow «communication transitive»: 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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