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title: Six had sped Ere Fergus sought the royal tent where sat Revellers ri… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Six had sped Ere Fergus sought the royal tent where sat Revellers right ill at ease. Who acts: Ere. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 131

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Six had sped Ere Fergus sought the royal tent where sat Revellers right ill at ease.

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**Who acts:** Ere · **What happens:** speed, seek · **To what, where:** Six, royal tent

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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 (Ere), 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:pg78491:15:133
# text = Six had sped Ere Fergus sought the royal tent where sat Revellers right ill at ease.
1	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	sped	speed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
4	Ere	Ere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
11	sat	sat	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Revellers	reveller	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	right	right	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	acl:relcl	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	ease	ease	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speed** | past · perfect · passive |  | Six |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent |
| 2 | **seek** | past | Ere | the royal tent |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tent=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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