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title: King Ailill placed Ferdīa on his right; Beyond him sat the Princess. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: King Ailill placed Ferdīa on his right; Beyond him sat the Princess. Who acts: King, Ferdīa. 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 33

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King Ailill placed Ferdīa on his right; Beyond him sat the Princess.

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**Who acts:** King, Ferdīa · **What happens:** place, sit · **To what, where:** Ferdīa, right, Princess

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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 (King, Ferdīa), 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:pg78491:13:35
# text = King Ailill placed Ferdīa on his right; Beyond him sat the Princess.
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Ailill	Ailill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	placed	place	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Ferdīa	Ferdīa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	right	right	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	Beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Princess	Princess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **place** | past | King | Ferdīa |  | Ferdīa's right |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent ferdīa=Theme on right=Destination |
| 2 | **sit** | past | Ferdīa | the Princess |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location princess=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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