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title: Forth flashed the eyes Of Finobar--it was their latest flash-- She a… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Forth flashed the eyes Of Finobar--it was their latest flash-- She answered thus; ‘The sequel leave to me! Who acts: eye, choice, sequel. 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 pragmati
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 121

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Forth flashed the eyes Of Finobar--it was their latest flash-- She answered thus; ‘The sequel leave to me!

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**Who acts:** eye, choice, sequel · **What happens:** flash, be, answer, leave · **To what, where:** eyes, latest flash, me

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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 (eye, choice, sequel), 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:pg78491:14:123
# text = Forth flashed the eyes Of Finobar--it was their latest flash-- She answered thus; ‘The sequel leave to me!
1	Forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	flashed	flash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Finobar	Finobar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	latest	late	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	12	amod	_	_
12	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	sequel	sequel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flash** | past |  | the eyes of Finobar |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | eye | kings's latest flash |  |  |  | kings *= king* *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | choice |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **leave** | infinitive | the sequel |  | me |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial\_Location |

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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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