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title: With a laugh King Conor fillip’d Conal’s cheek, and said, ‘Fool! tha… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: With a laugh King Conor fillip’d Conal’s cheek, and said, ‘Fool! that canst never understand a jest! Who acts: King fillip, that. 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 pragmatics of eve
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 30

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With a laugh King Conor fillip’d Conal’s cheek, and said, ‘Fool! that canst never understand a jest!

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**Who acts:** King fillip, that · **What happens:** have, say, not understand · **To what, where:** cheek, jest · **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 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 fillip, that), 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:pg78491:5:30
# text = With a laugh King Conor fillip’d Conal’s cheek, and said, ‘Fool! that canst never understand a jest!
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	laugh	laugh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	Conor	Conor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	fillip	fillip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’d	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Conal	Conal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
19	canst	can	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	parataxis	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	jest	jest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | King fillip | Conal's cheek |  |  |  | with a laugh | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cheek=Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | King fillip *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Fool *vocative* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **understand** | can | that | a jest |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer jest=Stimulus |

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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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