--- title: To Fergus last the royal plotter signed, And made, yet softlier tune… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: To Fergus last the royal plotter signed, And made, yet softlier tuned, the self-same quest; But he the questioner’s meaning nought divined, A Prince whose heart, uncovered as his crest, Contemned disguise; suspecting treachery none Thus answered Fergus, Roy’s once sceptred son: Who acts: you, Fergus --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/5/38/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The foray of Queen Meave, and other le…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/) / [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/5/) / 38 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 38 To Fergus last the royal plotter signed, And made, yet softlier tuned, the self-same quest; But he the questioner’s meaning nought divined, A Prince whose heart, uncovered as his crest, Contemned disguise; suspecting treachery none Thus answered Fergus, Roy’s once sceptred son: **Who acts:** you, Fergus, suspecting, Roy · **What happens:** last, sign, make, tune, divine, uncover · **To what, where:** royal plotter, Fergus, same quest, Prince heart, none, son · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (you, Fergus, suspecting, Roy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78491:5:38 # text = To Fergus last the royal plotter signed, And made, yet softlier tuned, the self-same quest; But he the questioner’s meaning nought divined, A Prince whose heart, uncovered as his crest, Contemned disguise; suspecting treachery none Thus answered Fergus, Roy’s once sceptred son: 1 To to ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Fergus Fergus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 3 last last VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 plotter plotter NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 7 signed sign VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 And and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 softlier softly ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 10 xcomp _ _ 14 tuned tune VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 17 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 18 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 quest quest NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 22 But but CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 questioner questioner NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ’s 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ _ 28 nought nought PRON NN PronType=Neg 23 appos _ _ 29 divined divine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 31 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 Prince Prince PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 compound _ _ 33 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 uncovered uncover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 acl _ _ 37 as as ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 crest crest NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 Contemned contemn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 amod _ _ 42 disguise disguise NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ; ; PUNCT : _ 48 punct _ _ 44 suspecting suspect VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 48 csubj _ _ 45 treachery treachery NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ _ 46 none none PRON NN PronType=Neg 44 obj _ _ 47 Thus thus ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 48 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 49 Fergus Fergus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 51 Roy Roy PROPN NNP Number=Sing 54 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 54 aux _ _ 53 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 54 advmod _ _ 54 sceptred sceptre VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 48 ccomp _ _ 55 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 54 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 56 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **last** | imperative | you *not said here* | the royal plotter | Fergus | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **sign** | participle | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **make** | past | you *not said here* | | | | | softly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 4 | **tune** | participle | you *not said here* | the same quest | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **divine** | past | Fergus | a Prince heart | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **uncover** | participle | | a Prince heart *not said here* | | | | as Fergus's crest and Contemned disguise | tree rules | | 7 | **contemn** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **suspect** | gerund | | none | | | | thus *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent none=Attribute | | 9 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | suspecting | | Fergus | | | | tree rules | | 10 | **sceptre** | present · passive | Roy | son | | | | once *property* | tree rules | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/5/37/) - next →: [sentence 39](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/5/39/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/5/)