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title: Ferdīa spake, ‘No Firbolg he, the man in Scatha’s Isle, That won a m… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ferdīa spake, ‘No Firbolg he, the man in Scatha’s Isle, That won a maid, then left her!’ Who acts: Ferdīa spake. 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 186

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Ferdīa spake, ‘No Firbolg he, the man in Scatha’s Isle, That won a maid, then left her!’

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**Who acts:** Ferdīa spake · **What happens:** win, leave · **To what, where:** maid, Firbolg

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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 spake), 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:pg78491:13:188
# text = Ferdīa spake, ‘No Firbolg he, the man in Scatha’s Isle, That won a maid, then left her!’
1	Ferdīa	Ferdīa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	Firbolg	Firbolg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Scatha	Scatha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	Isle	Isle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
17	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **win** | past | Ferdīa spake | a maid |  |  |  | no Firbolg *nsubj*; That *nsubj* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Eventuality |
| 2 | **leave** | past | Ferdīa spake *not said here* | Firbolg |  |  | then |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |

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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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