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title: The second morn They met at sunrise:--‘Thine the choice of arms;’ Th… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The second morn They met at sunrise:--‘Thine the choice of arms;’ The Firbolg spake; the Gael made answer; ‘Spears!’ Who acts: second morn, Gael. 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 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 140

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The second morn They met at sunrise:--‘Thine the choice of arms;’ The Firbolg spake; the Gael made answer; ‘Spears!’

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**Who acts:** second morn, Gael · **What happens:** meet, make · **To what, where:** Firbolg spake, answer

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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 (second morn, Gael), 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:pg78491:13:142
# text = The second morn They met at sunrise:--‘Thine the choice of arms;’ The Firbolg spake; the Gael made answer; ‘Spears!’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	amod	_	_
3	morn	morn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	_
18	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Firbolg	Firbolg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Gael	Gael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | the second morn | the Firbolg spake |  |  | sunrise | nerve *nsubj*; Thine choice of arms *conj* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | past | the Gael | answer |  |  |  | Spears *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset answer=Beneficiary spear=Product |

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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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