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title: Kings alone Partake that banquet; Ailill first, and she Of princesse… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Kings alone Partake that banquet; Ailill first, and she Of princesses the fairest, Finobar!’ Who acts: Kings. 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 24

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Kings alone Partake that banquet; Ailill first, and she Of princesses the fairest, Finobar!’

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**Who acts:** Kings · **What happens:** partake · **To what, where:** banquet

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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 (Kings), 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:pg78491:13:26
# text = Kings alone Partake that banquet; Ailill first, and she Of princesses the fairest, Finobar!’
1	Kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
2	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	Partake	partake	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Ailill	Ailill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	princesses	princess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	fairest	fair	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Finobar	Finobar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **partake** | infinitive | Kings | that banquet |  |  |  | Ailill *obl*; alone, first *property* | 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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