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title: He raised again his head: once more he sang: ‘Each battle was a game… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: He raised again his head: once more he sang: ‘Each battle was a game, a jest, a sport Till came, fore-doomed, Ferdīa to the Ford. Who acts: man, battle, game. 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 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 223

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He raised again his head: once more he sang: ‘Each battle was a game, a jest, a sport Till came, fore-doomed, Ferdīa to the Ford.

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**Who acts:** man, battle, game · **What happens:** raise, sing, be, come, doom · **To what, where:** head, game, Ferdīa

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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 (man, battle, game), 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:pg78491:13:225
# text = He raised again his head: once more he sang: ‘Each battle was a game, a jest, a sport Till came, fore-doomed, Ferdīa to the Ford.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
7	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
8	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	jest	jest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
24	Till	Till	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
25	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	fore	fore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	doomed	doom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	Ferdīa	Ferdīa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Ford	Ford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | past | man | man's head |  |  | again |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | man |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past | each battle | a game and a jest and a sport |  |  |  | a jest *conj*; a sport *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | past | a game and a jest and a sport |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **doom** | participle | a game and a jest and a sport *not said here* | Ferdīa |  |  |  | to the Ford; fore *compound* | tree rules |

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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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