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title: Then came the hour of Rochad’s great revenge: Then first he answered… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then came the hour of Rochad’s great revenge: Then first he answered plainly; ‘Finobar! Who acts: Forlorn, Rochad. 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 138

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Then came the hour of Rochad’s great revenge: Then first he answered plainly; ‘Finobar!

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**Who acts:** Forlorn, Rochad · **What happens:** come, answer, revenge · **To what, where:** Finobar

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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 (Forlorn, Rochad), 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:pg78491:14:140
# text = Then came the hour of Rochad’s great revenge: Then first he answered plainly; ‘Finobar!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	Rochad	Rochad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
12	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
15	plainly	plainly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Finobar	Finobar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past |  |  |  |  | then; hour |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Forlorn | Finobar |  |  | then | first, plainly *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **revenge** |  | Rochad |  |  |  |  |  | nom revenge «act transitive»: 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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