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title: Without a sigh She saw the Firbolg, last of all his race, Fall on th… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Without a sigh She saw the Firbolg, last of all his race, Fall on the soil once theirs. Who acts: Vanity, Ford. 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 106

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Without a sigh She saw the Firbolg, last of all his race, Fall on the soil once theirs.

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**Who acts:** Vanity, Ford · **What happens:** see, fall, race · **To what, where:** Firbolg, soil

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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 (Vanity, Ford), 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:pg78491:14:108
# text = Without a sigh She saw the Firbolg, last of all his race, Fall on the soil once theirs.
1	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	sigh	sigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Firbolg	Firbolg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	last	last	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	parataxis	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	15	advmod	_	_
20	theirs	their	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Vanity | the Firbolg |  |  |  | without a sigh; of Ford's race | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer firbolg=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fall** | infinitive |  |  |  | the soil |  | race *parataxis*; once *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on soil=Location |
| 3 | **race** |  | Ford |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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