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title: Once more abroad the cry of Fergus pealed; And Naisi cried: ‘Our Eri… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Once more abroad the cry of Fergus pealed; And Naisi cried: ‘Our Erin nursed that voice!’ Who acts: cry, Naisi, Erin, Fergus. 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 c
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 63

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Once more abroad the cry of Fergus pealed; And Naisi cried: ‘Our Erin nursed that voice!’

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**Who acts:** cry, Naisi, Erin, Fergus · **What happens:** peal, cry, nurse

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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 (cry, Naisi, Erin, Fergus), 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:pg78491:5:63
# text = Once more abroad the cry of Fergus pealed; And Naisi cried: ‘Our Erin nursed that voice!’
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	_
2	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
3	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	pealed	peal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	Naisi	Naisi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	nursed	nurse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **peal** | past | the cry of Fergus |  |  |  |  | abroad *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Naisi |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **nurse** | past | Our Erin |  |  |  |  | voice *advcl* | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **cry** |  | Fergus |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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