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title: Ferdīa most Had tasked the sorceress, for in him alone Vanity kept n… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ferdīa most Had tasked the sorceress, for in him alone Vanity kept no place. Who acts: Ferdīa, Vanity. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 14, 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 14, sentence 104

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Ferdīa most Had tasked the sorceress, for in him alone Vanity kept no place.

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**Who acts:** Ferdīa, Vanity · **What happens:** task, keep · **To what, where:** sorceress, place

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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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ferdīa, Vanity), 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:pg78491:14:106
# text = Ferdīa most Had tasked the sorceress, for in him alone Vanity kept no place.
1	Ferdīa	Ferdīa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	1	nmod	_	_
3	Had	Had	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	tasked	task	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	sorceress	sorceress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	parataxis	_	_
11	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
12	Vanity	Vanity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **task** | past | Ferdīa  most | the sorceress |  |  |  | Ford *parataxis*; alone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **keep** | past | Vanity | no place |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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