--- title: Ailill to Fergus turned And spake; ‘Be thou henceforth our Battle-Ki… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Ailill to Fergus turned And spake; ‘Be thou henceforth our Battle-King:’ Thus spake he; then, releasing from his belt The sword usurped of Fergus, added thus; ‘Receive once more thy sword! in mirth erewhile I made it mine: the virtue in that blade Hath kept me till this hour.’ Who acts: Ailill, swor --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/15/116/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The foray of Queen Meave, and other le…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/) / [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/15/) / 116 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 116 Ailill to Fergus turned And spake; ‘Be thou henceforth our Battle-King:’ Thus spake he; then, releasing from his belt The sword usurped of Fergus, added thus; ‘Receive once more thy sword! in mirth erewhile I made it mine: the virtue in that blade Hath kept me till this hour.’ **Who acts:** Ailill, sword, I, virtue, our · **What happens:** turn, be, speak, release, usurp, add · **To what, where:** spake, thou, belt, sword, mirth erewhile, erewhile · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ailill, sword, I, virtue), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78491:15:118 # text = Ailill to Fergus turned And spake; ‘Be thou henceforth our Battle-King:’ Thus spake he; then, releasing from his belt The sword usurped of Fergus, added thus; ‘Receive once more thy sword! in mirth erewhile I made it mine: the virtue in that blade Hath kept me till this hour.’ 1 Ailill Ailill PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 2 to to ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 Fergus Fergus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 4 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 And and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 spake speak NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 10 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 Be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 10 cop _ _ 10 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 4 obl _ _ 11 henceforth henceforth ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 12 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 Battle battle NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 16 : : PUNCT : _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ’ ' PUNCT `` _ 19 punct _ _ 18 Thus thus ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ _ 19 spake speak NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 24 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 releasing release VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 4 advcl _ _ 25 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 belt belt NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 usurped usurp VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 32 Fergus Fergus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 added add VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 35 thus thus ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ; ; PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 37 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 Receive receive VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 39 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 40 advmod _ _ 40 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 38 advmod _ _ 41 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ! ! PUNCT . _ 38 punct _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 mirth mirth NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 erewhile erewhile NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 47 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ _ 48 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 acl:relcl _ _ 49 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 48 obj _ _ 50 mine my PRON PRP Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 51 : : PUNCT : _ 57 punct _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 virtue virtue NOUN NN Number=Sing 57 nsubj _ _ 54 in in ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 55 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 56 det _ _ 56 blade blade NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nmod _ _ 57 Hath have VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 58 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 57 ccomp _ _ 59 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 58 obj _ _ 60 till till ADP IN _ 62 case _ _ 61 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 62 det _ _ 62 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 63 . . PUNCT . _ 57 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 64 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 57 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | past | Ailill to Fergus | spake | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent speak=Theme | | 2 | **is a** | infinitive | | thou | | | | henceforth *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | | Ailill | | | | | thus *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **release** | gerund | Ailill to Fergus *not said here* | | | battle's belt | then | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer | | 5 | **usurp** | past | the sword | battle's belt *not said here* | | | | of Fergus | tree rules | | 6 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | the sword *not said here* | | | | | thus *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | | 7 | **receive** | infinitive | Ailill to Fergus *not said here* | thy sword | | mirth erewhile | | | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sword=Theme in erewhile=Location | | 8 | **make** | past | I | erewhile | | | | mine *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary my=Product | | 9 | **have** | present | the virtue in that blade | | | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **keep** | past | the virtue in that blade *not said here* | me | | | hour | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 11 | **battle** | | our | | | | | | nom battle «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/15/115/) - next →: [sentence 117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/15/117/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/15/)