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title: That prince would bring Oft to his judgment court Queen Nessa’s boy… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: That prince would bring Oft to his judgment court Queen Nessa’s boy Whose forward wit unravelled every suit, Delighting in the wrangling clan’s dispute. Who acts: prince, wrangling clan. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, p
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 4

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That prince would bring Oft to his judgment court Queen Nessa’s boy Whose forward wit unravelled every suit, Delighting in the wrangling clan’s dispute.

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**Who acts:** prince, wrangling clan · **What happens:** bring, unravell, delight, wrangle, dispute · **To what, where:** judgment court, suit, dispute

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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 (prince, wrangling clan), 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:pg78491:3:4
# text = That prince would bring Oft to his judgment court Queen Nessa’s boy Whose forward wit unravelled every suit, Delighting in the wrangling clan’s dispute.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	Oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	to	to	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	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	Nessa	Nessa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
13	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
14	Whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	wit	wit	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	17	advmod	_	_
17	unravelled	unravell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	suit	suit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Delighting	delight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	wrangling	wrangle	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	amod	_	_
25	clan	clan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	dispute	dispute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | would | that prince |  |  | prince's judgment court  Queen's boy |  | oft *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to court=Destination |
| 2 | **unravell** | participle |  | every suit |  |  |  | Queen's boy *nmod:poss*; forward, wit *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **delight** | gerund | that prince *not said here* |  |  | the wrangling clan's dispute |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **wrangle** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **dispute** |  | the wrangling clan |  |  |  |  |  | nom dispute «communication intransitive»: 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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