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title: Then brake upon him Alp That ruled in far Iorras, speaking thus; ‘Fe… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then brake upon him Alp That ruled in far Iorras, speaking thus; ‘Fergus, we love our queen; but love not thee! Who acts: you, That, we. 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 pragmatic
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 52

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Then brake upon him Alp That ruled in far Iorras, speaking thus; ‘Fergus, we love our queen; but love not thee!

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**Who acts:** you, That, we · **What happens:** break, rule in, speak, love, not love · **To what, where:** Alp, Iorras, queen, thee · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, That, we), 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:pg78491:14:54
# text = Then brake upon him Alp That ruled in far Iorras, speaking thus; ‘Fergus, we love our queen; but love not thee!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	brake	break	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	Alp	Alp	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
7	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
8	in	in	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	Iorras	Iorras	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
13	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	love	love	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
26	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | imperative | you *not said here* | Alp |  |  | then | upon Easy; Fergus *obl* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer alp=Patient |
| 2 | **rule in** | past | That | Iorras |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | That *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **love** | present | we | our queen |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer queen=Stimulus |
| 5 | **not** **love** | present |  | thee |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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