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title: The sole man unastonished, Fergus spake: ‘Sirs, late ye learn our wa… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 138

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The sole man unastonished, Fergus spake: ‘Sirs, late ye learn our warfare!

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**Who acts:** ye · **What happens:** learn · **To what, where:** warfare, Fergus spake

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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 (ye), 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:pg78491:15:140
# text = The sole man unastonished, Fergus spake: ‘Sirs, late ye learn our warfare!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sole	sole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	unastonished	unastonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Sirs	sir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
13	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nsubj	_	_
14	learn	learn	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	warfare	warfare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | present | ye | our warfare |  |  |  | late *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warfare=Topic |

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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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