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title: So spake the Firbolg; and they closed in fight: And straightway from… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: So spake the Firbolg; and they closed in fight: And straightway from his heart to arm and hand Rushed up the strength of all that buried race By him so loved! Who acts: you, foes. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13,
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 148

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So spake the Firbolg; and they closed in fight: And straightway from his heart to arm and hand Rushed up the strength of all that buried race By him so loved!

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**Who acts:** you, foes · **What happens:** speak, close, rush up, bury, love · **To what, where:** Firbolg, race · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, foes), 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:pg78491:13:150
# text = So spake the Firbolg; and they closed in fight: And straightway from his heart to arm and hand Rushed up the strength of all that buried race By him so loved!
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	spake	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Firbolg	Firbolg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	closed	close	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	straightway	straightway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	Rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	27	det:predet	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obl	_	_
28	buried	bury	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
29	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
30	By	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
32	so	so	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* | the Firbolg |  |  |  | straightway from Cuchullain's heart and arm and hand and the Rushed strength *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **close** | past | foes *= foe* |  |  |  |  | in fight | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent in fight=Topic |
| 3 | **rush up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **bury** | past |  | race |  |  |  | of the Rushed strength; by Cuchullain | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent race=Theme by he=Destination |
| 5 | **love** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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