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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 4

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Queen Meave sends her herald to Ferdīa the Firbolg, requiring him to engage with Cuchullain in single combat.

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**Who acts:** Queen · **What happens:** send, require, engage · **To what, where:** herald, Ferdīa, single combat

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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 (Queen), 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:pg78491:13:6
# text = Queen Meave sends her herald to Ferdīa the Firbolg, requiring him to engage with Cuchullain in single combat.
1	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	herald	herald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Ferdīa	Ferdīa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Firbolg	Firbolg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	requiring	require	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	engage	engage	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	combat	combat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | present | Queen | Queen's herald | Ferdīa |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herald=Theme to ferdīa=Destination |
| 2 | **require** | gerund | Queen *not said here* | Ferdīa |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **engage** | to-infinitive | Queen *not said here* |  |  | single combat |  | with Cuchullain | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with cuchullain=Co-Patient |

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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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