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title: Thus of that man whom most he loved on earth He made complaint. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus of that man whom most he loved on earth He made complaint. Who acts: Ferdīa. 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 27

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Thus of that man whom most he loved on earth He made complaint.

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**Who acts:** Ferdīa · **What happens:** love, make · **To what, where:** man, earth, complaint

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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), 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:pg78491:14:29
# text = Thus of that man whom most he loved on earth He made complaint.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
6	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	complaint	complaint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | Ferdīa | that man |  | earth |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus |
| 2 | **make** | past | Ferdīa | complaint |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent complaint=Product |

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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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