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title: Ketherne laughed loud: ‘My choice is quickly made-- Three months bed… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ketherne laughed loud: ‘My choice is quickly made-- Three months bed-ridden, or one vengeance day Joyous and glorious! Who acts: Ketherne. 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 pragmat
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 95

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Ketherne laughed loud: ‘My choice is quickly made-- Three months bed-ridden, or one vengeance day Joyous and glorious!

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**Who acts:** Ketherne · **What happens:** laugh, make, ride · **To what, where:** choice, Three months

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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 (Ketherne), 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:pg78491:14:97
# text = Ketherne laughed loud: ‘My choice is quickly made-- Three months bed-ridden, or one vengeance day Joyous and glorious!
1	Ketherne	Ketherne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	loud	loud	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
9	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	ridden	ride	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
20	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
22	Joyous	joyous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | Ketherne |  |  |  |  | loud *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | present · passive |  | My choice |  |  |  | quickly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **ride** | participle · passive |  | Three months |  |  |  | bed *compound* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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