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title: Next morning Fergus o’er the waters sped At earliest dawn; with him… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Next morning Fergus o’er the waters sped At earliest dawn; with him his sons alone, Illan the Fair; Buini the Ruthless Red, His shield-bearer, the third. 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 a
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 51

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Next morning Fergus o’er the waters sped At earliest dawn; with him his sons alone, Illan the Fair; Buini the Ruthless Red, His shield-bearer, the third.

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**What happens:** speed · **To what, where:** sons

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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: 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:pg78491:5:51
# text = Next morning Fergus o’er the waters sped At earliest dawn; with him his sons alone, Illan the Fair; Buini the Ruthless Red, His shield-bearer, the third.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	o’er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
7	sped	speed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	At	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	amod	_	_
10	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
16	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Illan	Illan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Fair	Fair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Buini	Buini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Ruthless	Ruthless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
28	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	bearer	bearer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speed** | past |  | Fergus's sons with Fergus |  |  | dawn; morning | o'er the waters | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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