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title: On the Firbolg’s brow A shadow fell:--‘All weapons there,’ he mused,… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 167

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On the Firbolg’s brow A shadow fell:--‘All weapons there,’ he mused, ‘Have place alike: if on him falls the rage He will not spare the Gae-Bulg!’

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**Who acts:** shadow, Red · **What happens:** fall, muse, have, not spare · **To what, where:** weapons, brow, place, rage, Gae Bulg

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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 (shadow, Red), 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:pg78491:13:169
# text = On the Firbolg’s brow A shadow fell:--‘All weapons there,’ he mused, ‘Have place alike: if on him falls the rage He will not spare the Gae-Bulg!’
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Firbolg	Firbolg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	mused	muse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	‘	‘	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Have	have	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	conj	_	_
22	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	alike	alike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
28	falls	fall	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
32	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
36	Gae	Gae	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	Bulg	Bulg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | a shadow | all weapons |  | the Firbolg's brow |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on brow=Location |
| 2 | **muse** | past | shadow |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **have** |  | shadow *not said here* | place |  |  |  | alike *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |
| 4 | **fall** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | a shadow *not said here* | the rage |  |  |  | on Red | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient rage=Result |
| 5 | **not** **spare** | future | Red | the Gae Bulg |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent bulg=Asset |

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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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