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title: The concourse laughed; the loudest Meave: though wroth Ailill a litt… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The concourse laughed; the loudest Meave: though wroth Ailill a little whiffling laugh essayed With sidelong face. Who acts: concourse, wroth Ailill. 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 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 121

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The concourse laughed; the loudest Meave: though wroth Ailill a little whiffling laugh essayed With sidelong face.

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**Who acts:** concourse, wroth Ailill · **What happens:** laugh, essay · **To what, where:** loudest Meave

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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 (concourse, wroth Ailill), 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:pg78491:15:123
# text = The concourse laughed; the loudest Meave: though wroth Ailill a little whiffling laugh essayed With sidelong face.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	concourse	concourse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	loudest	loud	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
9	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
10	wroth	wroth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Ailill	Ailill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	whiffling	whiffling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
16	essayed	essay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	With	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	sidelong	sidelong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | the concourse | the loudest Meave |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **essay** | past | wroth Ailill |  |  |  |  | with sidelong face | 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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