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title: Fiercely and long The unwise council strove; and Meave, who feared F… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fiercely and long The unwise council strove; and Meave, who feared Far more the petulance of her lesser kings Than that great exile’s loftier wrath, resumed Next morn her march erratic. Who acts: Meave. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 76

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Fiercely and long The unwise council strove; and Meave, who feared Far more the petulance of her lesser kings Than that great exile’s loftier wrath, resumed Next morn her march erratic.

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**Who acts:** Meave · **What happens:** long, fear, resume · **To what, where:** unwise council strove, more petulance, Next morn

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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 (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:pg78491:14:78
# text = Fiercely and long The unwise council strove; and Meave, who feared Far more the petulance of her lesser kings Than that great exile’s loftier wrath, resumed Next morn her march erratic.
1	Fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	long	long	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	unwise	unwise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	strove	strove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	petulance	petulance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	lesser	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	21	amod	_	_
21	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
22	Than	than	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	exile	exile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	loftier	lofty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	resumed	resume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
31	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	morn	morn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	march	march	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
35	erratic	erratic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **long** | past |  | the unwise council strove |  |  |  | Meave *obl*; fiercely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fear** | past | Meave | the more petulance of Meave's lesser kings |  |  |  | than that great exile's loftier wrath | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer petulance=Stimulus |
| 3 | **resume** | participle | Meave *not said here* | Next morn |  |  |  | Meave's march *obj*; erratic *property* | 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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