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title: Far apart Sat Fergus; on his brow alone was shade: The deed was need… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Far apart Sat Fergus; on his brow alone was shade: The deed was needful; but his country’s blood Gladdened not him. Who acts: deed, blood. 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 pragmat
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 184

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Far apart Sat Fergus; on his brow alone was shade: The deed was needful; but his country’s blood Gladdened not him.

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**Who acts:** deed, blood · **What happens:** be, not gladden · **To what, where:** brow shade, man

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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 (deed, blood), 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:pg78491:15:186
# text = Far apart Sat Fergus; on his brow alone was shade: The deed was needful; but his country’s blood Gladdened not him.
1	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
2	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
3	Sat	Saturday	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
4	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
9	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	needful	needful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	Gladdened	gladden	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | brow shade |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the deed |  |  |  |  | needful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **gladden** | past | man's country's blood | man |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |

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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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