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title: ‘To these the clans send embassies from far Laden with gifts, and su… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘To these the clans send embassies from far Laden with gifts, and suing, “Grant us aid! Who acts: clans. 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 75

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‘To these the clans send embassies from far Laden with gifts, and suing, “Grant us aid!

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**Who acts:** clans · **What happens:** send, sue, grant · **To what, where:** embassies, Laden, aid, us · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clans), 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:pg78491:3:75
# text = ‘To these the clans send embassies from far Laden with gifts, and suing, “Grant us aid!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	clans	clan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	send	send	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	embassies	embassy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	Laden	Laden	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	suing	sue	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Grant	grant	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | present | this clans | embassies |  | Laden |  | with gifts | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent embassy=Theme from laden=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **sue** | gerund | this clans *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **grant** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | aid | us |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent we=Goal aid=Theme |

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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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