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title: Meave that night The first time since the death of Finobar Was cheer… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Meave that night The first time since the death of Finobar Was cheerful of aspéct; and, banquet o’er, Rising her warriors she addressed with vaunt Beseeming not a queen. Who acts: you, death, banquet o’er, tent. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by A
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 22

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Meave that night The first time since the death of Finobar Was cheerful of aspéct; and, banquet o’er, Rising her warriors she addressed with vaunt Beseeming not a queen.

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**Who acts:** you, death, banquet o’er, tent, Finobar · **What happens:** meave, be, rise, address, die · **To what, where:** warriors

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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 (you, death, banquet o’er, tent), 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:pg78491:15:24
# text = Meave that night The first time since the death of Finobar Was cheerful of aspéct; and, banquet o’er, Rising her warriors she addressed with vaunt Beseeming not a queen.
1	Meave	meave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	since	since	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Finobar	Finobar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	aspéct	aspéct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	o’er	o'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	acl	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	vaunt	vaunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Beseeming	beseeming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	32	advmod	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meave** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | night; time | banquet o’er *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the death of Finobar |  |  |  |  | of aspéct; cheerful *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **rise** | gerund | banquet o’er *not said here* | Finobar's warriors |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location warrior=Theme |
| 4 | **address** | past | tent | Finobar's warriors *not said here* |  |  |  | with vaunt Beseeming  a queen | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent warrior=Destination with beseeming=Theme |
| 5 | **die** |  | Finobar |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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