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title: Then told the man his tale from first to last With added circumstance. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then told the man his tale from first to last With added circumstance. Who acts: Breeze. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 4, 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 4, sentence 66

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Then told the man his tale from first to last With added circumstance.

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**Who acts:** Breeze · **What happens:** tell, last, add · **To what, where:** tale, man · **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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Breeze), 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:pg78491:4:67
# text = Then told the man his tale from first to last With added circumstance.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
11	With	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	circumstance	circumstance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past |  | Breeze's tale | the man |  | then |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent man=Recipient tale=Topic |
| 2 | **last** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with added circumstance | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **tell** |  | Breeze |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «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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