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title: Proudly Ailill clasped Its glittering hilt: Fergus drew back the she… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Proudly Ailill clasped Its glittering hilt: Fergus drew back the sheath; And lo, a wooden sword, for babes a toy! Who acts: Ailill, Fergus. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 120

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Proudly Ailill clasped Its glittering hilt: Fergus drew back the sheath; And lo, a wooden sword, for babes a toy!

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**Who acts:** Ailill, Fergus · **What happens:** clasp, draw back · **To what, where:** glittering hilt, sheath

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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 (Ailill, Fergus), 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:pg78491:15:122
# text = Proudly Ailill clasped Its glittering hilt: Fergus drew back the sheath; And lo, a wooden sword, for babes a toy!
1	Proudly	proudly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Ailill	Ailill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	clasped	clasp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	glittering	glittering	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hilt	hilt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	back	back	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sheath	sheath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	wooden	wooden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	babes	babe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	appos	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	toy	toy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clasp** | past | Ailill | best's glittering hilt |  |  |  | a wooden sword *obl*; proudly *property* | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hilt=Theme |
| 2 | **draw back** | past | Fergus | the sheath |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheath=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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