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title: Fergus rose, and spake: ‘Sirs, I have heard a war this day extolled,… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fergus rose, and spake: ‘Sirs, I have heard a war this day extolled, A war this day denounced. Who acts: Fergus, I, day. 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 claus
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 33

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Fergus rose, and spake: ‘Sirs, I have heard a war this day extolled, A war this day denounced.

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**Who acts:** Fergus, I, day · **What happens:** rise, hear, extol, denounce · **To what, where:** spake, war, day

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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 (Fergus, I, day), 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:pg78491:15:35
# text = Fergus rose, and spake: ‘Sirs, I have heard a war this day extolled, A war this day denounced.
1	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Sirs	sir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	_
17	extolled	extol	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	denounced	denounce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past | Fergus | spake and Sirs  a war |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hear** | present · perfect | I | a war |  |  | day |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer war=Stimulus |
| 3 | **extol** | participle |  | this day *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **denounce** | past | this day | a war *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent war=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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