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title: Then Fergus in the soil Planting his sword upright before it knelt,… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Fergus in the soil Planting his sword upright before it knelt, And spake; ‘O thou my sovereignty, my sword, In many a battle, yet in none unjust, So many a year my glory and my mate! Who acts: soil, upright, thou, my. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroi
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 122

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Then Fergus in the soil Planting his sword upright before it knelt, And spake; ‘O thou my sovereignty, my sword, In many a battle, yet in none unjust, So many a year my glory and my mate!

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**Who acts:** soil, upright, thou, my · **What happens:** plant, kneel, sovereignty, glory · **To what, where:** sword upright, spake, Fergus

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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 (soil, upright, thou, my), 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:pg78491:15:124
# text = Then Fergus in the soil Planting his sword upright before it knelt, And spake; ‘O thou my sovereignty, my sword, In many a battle, yet in none unjust, So many a year my glory and my mate!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	Planting	plant	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	upright	upright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	knelt	kneel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
19	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	sovereignty	sovereignty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
26	In	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	34	obl	_	_
34	unjust	unjust	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	So	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
37	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	parataxis	_	_
40	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	appos	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	mate	mate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **plant** | gerund | the soil *not said here* | Ailill's sword upright |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent upright=Patient |
| 2 | **kneel** | past | upright | spake |  |  |  |  | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speak=Topic |
| 3 | **sovereignty** |  | thou |  |  |  |  | my *nmod:poss*; my sword *conj*; a many battle *conj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **glory** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom glory «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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