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title: ‘I march not hence’ He said, ‘till Uladh’s wound is wholly healed;--… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘I march not hence’ He said, ‘till Uladh’s wound is wholly healed;-- Fergus I deem the sage of battle-fields, Though fool in all beside.’ Who acts: I, Conor, Uladh. 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 depen
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 82

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‘I march not hence’ He said, ‘till Uladh’s wound is wholly healed;-- Fergus I deem the sage of battle-fields, Though fool in all beside.’

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**Who acts:** I, Conor, Uladh · **What happens:** not march, say, heal, deem, wound · **To what, where:** Fergus, fool · **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 (I, Conor, Uladh), 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:pg78491:14:84
# text = ‘I march not hence’ He said, ‘till Uladh’s wound is wholly healed;-- Fergus I deem the sage of battle-fields, Though fool in all beside.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	march	march	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
5	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
7	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	till	till	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
16	wholly	wholly	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	healed	heal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	deem	deem	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sage	sage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	nmod	_	_
34	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **march** | present | I |  |  |  |  | hence *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Conor |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **heal** | present · passive |  |  |  |  | till Uladh's wound | wholly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» |
| 4 | **deem** | present | I | Fergus |  | fool in all |  | the sage of battle fields *obj* | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent sage=Attribute |
| 5 | **wound** |  | Uladh |  |  |  |  |  | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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