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title: Fulfilled were all these pledges save the last; For Meave upon that… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fulfilled were all these pledges save the last; For Meave upon that fatal day, while hung Doubtful the battle-scales, had given command To lead the Donn to Cruachan. Who acts: Fulfilled pledges. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Op
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 3

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Fulfilled were all these pledges save the last; For Meave upon that fatal day, while hung Doubtful the battle-scales, had given command To lead the Donn to Cruachan.

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**Who acts:** Fulfilled pledges · **What happens:** fulfil, be, save, hang, give, lead · **To what, where:** Fulfilled pledges, last, Doubtful, command, Donn, Cruachan

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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 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fulfilled pledges), 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:pg78491:16:3
# text = Fulfilled were all these pledges save the last; For Meave upon that fatal day, while hung Doubtful the battle-scales, had given command To lead the Donn to Cruachan.
1	Fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	pledges	pledge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	save	save	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	For	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
19	Doubtful	Doubtful	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
27	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	To	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	Donn	Donn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Cruachan	Cruachan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fulfil** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | all Fulfilled pledges |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **save** | present | all Fulfilled pledges | the last |  |  | day | for Meave | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent last=Theme for meave=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **hang** | past |  | Doubtful |  |  |  | the battle scales *obj* | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent doubtful=Patient scale=Result |
| 5 | **give** | past · perfect |  | command |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme |
| 6 | **lead** | to-infinitive |  | the Donn | Cruachan |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent donn=Theme to cruachan=Destination |

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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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