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title: Then Fergus frowned: At once from doubt released With them he sent h… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Fergus frowned: At once from doubt released With them he sent his sons, and joined the feast. Who acts: Fergus. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 6, 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 6, sentence 15

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Then Fergus frowned: At once from doubt released With them he sent his sons, and joined the feast.

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**Who acts:** Fergus · **What happens:** frown, release, send, join · **To what, where:** doubt, sons, feast

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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:pg78491:6:15
# text = Then Fergus frowned: At once from doubt released With them he sent his sons, and joined the feast.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	frowned	frown	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
5	At	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	released	release	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	With	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
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	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	joined	join	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frown** | past | Fergus |  |  |  | then |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **release** | participle |  | doubt *not said here* |  |  |  | with sons *= son* | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer |
| 3 | **send** | past | Fergus | Fergus's sons |  |  |  | once *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme |
| 4 | **join** | past | Fergus *not said here* | the feast |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient |

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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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