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title: The confederate kings fall out among themselves; Meave summons a war… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The confederate kings fall out among themselves; Meave summons a war council; whereupon there bursts forth a second contention between them and the Exile-Band. Who acts: confederate kings, Meave. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, O
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 6

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The confederate kings fall out among themselves; Meave summons a war council; whereupon there bursts forth a second contention between them and the Exile-Band.

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**Who acts:** confederate kings, Meave · **What happens:** fall out, summon, burst · **To what, where:** war council, second contention

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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 (confederate kings, Meave), 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:pg78491:14:8
# text = The confederate kings fall out among themselves; Meave summons a war council; whereupon there bursts forth a second contention between them and the Exile-Band.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	confederate	confederate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	among	among	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	summons	summon	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	bursts	burst	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	21	amod	_	_
21	contention	contention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	between	between	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
26	Exile	Exile	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	Band	Band	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall out** | present | the confederate kings |  |  |  |  | among kings *= king*; out *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among themselves=Location |
| 2 | **summon** | present | Meave | a war council |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Recipient |
| 3 | **burst** | present | the confederate kings *not said here* | a second contention |  | there |  | between kings *= king*; forth, whereupon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location contention=Theme |

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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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