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title: Once too she caught that Druid by the sleeve, And spake; ‘Great Mast… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Once too she caught that Druid by the sleeve, And spake; ‘Great Master, this I ask of thee! Who acts: Ogham, this. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 3, 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 3, sentence 27

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Once too she caught that Druid by the sleeve, And spake; ‘Great Master, this I ask of thee!

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**Who acts:** Ogham, this · **What happens:** catch, ask · **To what, where:** Druid, Great Master

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ogham, this), 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:pg78491:3:27
# text = Once too she caught that Druid by the sleeve, And spake; ‘Great Master, this I ask of thee!
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	4	advmod	_	_
2	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	Druid	Druid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	sleeve	sleeve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Master	Master	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	nsubj	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	ask	ask	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | Ogham | Druid |  |  |  | by the sleeve; spake *obl*; Great Master *obl*; once *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **ask** *speech: ask* | present | this | Great Master *not said here* |  |  |  | of thee; I *nsubj* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=Recipient |

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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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