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title: The Pict replied Well pleased, albeit at Naisi’s name aghast, ‘To sl… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Pict replied Well pleased, albeit at Naisi’s name aghast, ‘To slay that chief were hard; to snare his bride Were sweet. Who acts: Pict, chief, bride, Naisi. 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
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 67

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The Pict replied Well pleased, albeit at Naisi’s name aghast, ‘To slay that chief were hard; to snare his bride Were sweet.

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**Who acts:** Pict, chief, bride, Naisi · **What happens:** reply, slay, be, snare, name

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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 (Pict, chief, bride, Naisi), 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:pg78491:4:68
# text = The Pict replied Well pleased, albeit at Naisi’s name aghast, ‘To slay that chief were hard; to snare his bride Were sweet.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Pict	Pict	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	albeit	albeit	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Naisi	Naisi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
12	aghast	aghast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	To	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	slay	slay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	snare	snare	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	Were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Pict |  |  |  |  | pleased *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **slay** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | chief |  |  |  |  | hard *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **snare** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past | Pict's bride |  |  |  |  | sweet *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **name** |  | Naisi |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: 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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