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title: But Meave replied ‘Not so; I fly not! — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Meave replied ‘Not so; I fly not! Who acts: Meave, I. 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 82

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But Meave replied ‘Not so; I fly not!

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**Who acts:** Meave, I · **What happens:** reply, not fly

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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 (Meave, I), 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:pg78491:15:84
# text = But Meave replied ‘Not so; I fly not!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	so	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	fly	fly	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Meave |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **fly** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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