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title: ‘King! if he fell, of Uladh’s sons one half For Naisi’s sake should… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘King! if he fell, of Uladh’s sons one half For Naisi’s sake should lie ere three days dead, And for my surety broken.’ Who acts: King, one half. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 29

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‘King! if he fell, of Uladh’s sons one half For Naisi’s sake should lie ere three days dead, And for my surety broken.’

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**Who acts:** King, one half · **What happens:** fall, lie, break · **To what, where:** dead

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, one half), 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:pg78491:5:29
# text = ‘King! if he fell, of Uladh’s sons one half For Naisi’s sake should lie ere three days dead, And for my surety broken.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	King	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	19	nsubj	_	_
14	For	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	Naisi	Naisi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	lie	lie	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl:relcl	_	_
20	ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	surety	surety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
29	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | King |  |  |  |  | of Uladh's sons | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of son=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **lie** | should | one half for Naisi's sake | dead  three days |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location son=Theme |
| 3 | **break** | participle | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for my surety | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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