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title: A red spot stood on Fergus’ crownless brow; The Three looked up; and… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: A red spot stood on Fergus’ crownless brow; The Three looked up; and spake: ‘We go, and now!’ Who acts: red spot, Three, We. 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 cl
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 89

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A red spot stood on Fergus’ crownless brow; The Three looked up; and spake: ‘We go, and now!’

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**Who acts:** red spot, Three, We · **What happens:** stand, look up, go · **To what, where:** Fergus

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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 (red spot, Three, We), 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:pg78491:5:89
# text = A red spot stood on Fergus’ crownless brow; The Three looked up; and spake: ‘We go, and now!’
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	'	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	crownless	crownless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Three	Three	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	go	go	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | a red spot |  |  | Fergus | now | spake *parataxis* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on fergus=Location |
| 2 | **look up** | past | the Three |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **go** | present | We |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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