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title: On Etive’s lake Some fisher boasts a spoil, or chieftain’s scout Wel… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: On Etive’s lake Some fisher boasts a spoil, or chieftain’s scout Welcomes his fellows far away. Who acts: fisher, scout. 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 every clause
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 60

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On Etive’s lake Some fisher boasts a spoil, or chieftain’s scout Welcomes his fellows far away.

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**Who acts:** fisher, scout · **What happens:** boast, welcome · **To what, where:** spoil, lake, fellows

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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 (fisher, scout), 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:pg78491:5:60
# text = On Etive’s lake Some fisher boasts a spoil, or chieftain’s scout Welcomes his fellows far away.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Etive	Etive	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	fisher	fisher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	boasts	boast	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	spoil	spoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	scout	scout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	Welcomes	welcome	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	fellows	fellow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
19	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **boast** *speech: other* | present | some fisher | a spoil |  | Etive's lake |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **welcome** | present | chieftain's scout | scout's fellows |  |  |  | away *property* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fellow=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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