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title: In Fergus wrath Gave way to scorn: with haughty port he spake, A man… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In Fergus wrath Gave way to scorn: with haughty port he spake, A man majestical yet mirthful too. Who acts: field. 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 60

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In Fergus wrath Gave way to scorn: with haughty port he spake, A man majestical yet mirthful too.

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**Who acts:** field · **What happens:** give, scorn, speak · **To what, where:** way, Fergus wrath · **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 (field), 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:pg78491:14:62
# text = In Fergus wrath Gave way to scorn: with haughty port he spake, A man majestical yet mirthful too.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	Gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	scorn	scorn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	haughty	haughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	majestical	majestical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
18	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	mirthful	mirthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past |  | way |  | Fergus wrath |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 2 | **scorn** | to-infinitive |  | way *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* |  | field |  |  |  |  | a man *conj* | tree rules |

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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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