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title: Next evening, while division of the spoil is being made, Meave is wa… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Next evening, while division of the spoil is being made, Meave is ware of the advance of King Conor; and Ailill transfers the supreme command to Fergus, who prepares for the attack. Who acts: Next evening, division, Ailill, Fergus. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Irelan
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 6

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Next evening, while division of the spoil is being made, Meave is ware of the advance of King Conor; and Ailill transfers the supreme command to Fergus, who prepares for the attack.

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**Who acts:** Next evening, division, Ailill, Fergus, King Conor · **What happens:** make, be, transfer, prepare, advance · **To what, where:** division, Meave ware, supreme command, Fergus, Next evening

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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 (Next evening, division, Ailill, Fergus), 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:pg78491:15:8
# text = Next evening, while division of the spoil is being made, Meave is ware of the advance of King Conor; and Ailill transfers the supreme command to Fergus, who prepares for the attack.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
5	division	division	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	spoil	spoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	ware	ware	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	advance	advance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Conor	Conor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	Ailill	Ailill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	transfers	transfer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	supreme	supreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
33	prepares	prepare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	attack	attack	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | present · passive | Next evening *not said here* | division of the spoil |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **is a** | present | division of the spoil *not said here* | Meave ware |  |  |  | of the advance of King Conor | tree rules |
| 3 | **transfer** | present | Ailill | the supreme command | Fergus |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent command=Theme to fergus=Recipient |
| 4 | **prepare** | present | Fergus |  |  |  |  | for the attack | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for attack=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **advance** |  | King Conor |  |  |  |  |  | nom advance «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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