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title: His crowned compeer, Fergus arose; incensed he made reply; ‘Throne h… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: His crowned compeer, Fergus arose; incensed he made reply; ‘Throne him your king, if worthier he than I!’ Who acts: crowned compeer, Fergus. 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 pragma
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 7

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His crowned compeer, Fergus arose; incensed he made reply; ‘Throne him your king, if worthier he than I!’

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**Who acts:** crowned compeer, Fergus · **What happens:** crown, arise, incense, reply, throne · **To what, where:** judgment

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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 (crowned compeer, Fergus), 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:pg78491:3:7
# text = His crowned compeer, Fergus arose; incensed he made reply; ‘Throne him your king, if worthier he than I!’
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	crowned	crown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	compeer	compeer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	incensed	incense	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	made	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	reply	reply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Throne	throne	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	worthier	worthy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	parataxis	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **crown** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **arise** | past | judgment's crowned compeer |  |  |  |  | Fergus *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **incense** | participle | judgment's crowned compeer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **reply** *speech: assert* | may | Fergus |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **throne** | infinitive | judgment's crowned compeer *not said here* | judgment |  |  |  | your king *obj* | tree rules |

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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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