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title: King Conor heard, and in his angry mood Had risen to speak her doom;… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: King Conor heard, and in his angry mood Had risen to speak her doom; ‘That child shall die!’ Who acts: King, child, death. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 90

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King Conor heard, and in his angry mood Had risen to speak her doom; ‘That child shall die!’

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**Who acts:** King, child, death · **What happens:** hear, rise, speak, die, doom · **To what, where:** angry mood, doom · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, child, death), 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:pg78491:2:95
# text = King Conor heard, and in his angry mood Had risen to speak her doom; ‘That child shall die!’
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Conor	Conor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	angry	angry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
10	Had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	risen	rise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	ccomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	doom	doom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **rise** | past · perfect |  |  |  | Eman's angry mood |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | to-infinitive |  | death's doom |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **die** | shall | that child |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **doom** |  | death |  |  |  |  |  | nom doom «event transitive»: poss=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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