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title: Fergus replied; ‘I take mine own: but one month past, this sword Had… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fergus replied; ‘I take mine own: but one month past, this sword Had cut the cancer out of Uladh’s breast, And made thy throne a praise on earth for aye! Who acts: Fergus, I. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15, with
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 117

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Fergus replied; ‘I take mine own: but one month past, this sword Had cut the cancer out of Uladh’s breast, And made thy throne a praise on earth for aye!

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**Who acts:** Fergus, I · **What happens:** reply, take, cut, make, throne · **To what, where:** mine, one month, breast, praise, earth · **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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fergus, I), 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:pg78491:15:119
# text = Fergus replied; ‘I take mine own: but one month past, this sword Had cut the cancer out of Uladh’s breast, And made thy throne a praise on earth for aye!
1	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
4	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	past	past	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	Had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cancer	cancer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’s	's	PART	POS	_	23	case	_	_
25	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	throne	throne	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	aye	aye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Fergus |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **take** | present | I | mine |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument my=Theme own=Destination |
| 3 | **cut** | past · perfect · passive |  | one month |  | Uladh's breast |  | this sword *nsubj:pass*; the cancer *obj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary cancer=Product |
| 4 | **make** | past | Fergus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **throne** | infinitive | Fergus *not said here* | a praise |  | earth for aye |  | thy *nmod:poss* | 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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