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title: But in the tent of Meave Triumph ruled all: a hundred spake at once… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But in the tent of Meave Triumph ruled all: a hundred spake at once Each man his deeds recounting. Who acts: deeds. 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 183

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But in the tent of Meave Triumph ruled all: a hundred spake at once Each man his deeds recounting.

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**Who acts:** deeds · **What happens:** rule, recount · **To what, where:** hundred spake, 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 (deeds), 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:pg78491:15:185
# text = But in the tent of Meave Triumph ruled all: a hundred spake at once Each man his deeds recounting.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	Triumph	Triumph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	ruled	rule	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	17	advmod	_	_
16	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	17	det	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	recounting	recount	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rule** | past |  | a hundred spake |  | the tent of Meave |  | at each man  man's deeds; all *property* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **recount** *speech: other* | gerund | man's deeds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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