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title: The Brothers answered; ‘No! nor yet three days!’ — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Brothers answered; ‘No! nor yet three days!’ Who acts: Brothers. 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 76

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The Brothers answered; ‘No! nor yet three days!’

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**Who acts:** Brothers · **What happens:** answer

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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 (Brothers), 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:pg78491:4:77
# text = The Brothers answered; ‘No! nor yet three days!’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Brothers	Brother	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	No	no	INTJ	UH	Polarity=Neg	11	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	11	cc	_	_
9	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nummod	_	_
11	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the Brothers |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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