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title: Then spake to Illan, Fergus’ kindlier son, The Ruthless Red; ‘Small… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then spake to Illan, Fergus’ kindlier son, The Ruthless Red; ‘Small faith in us they place!’ Who acts: you, Small faith. 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 21

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Then spake to Illan, Fergus’ kindlier son, The Ruthless Red; ‘Small faith in us they place!’

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**Who acts:** you, Small faith · **What happens:** speak, place · **To what, where:** Illan · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, Small faith), 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:pg78491:6:22
# text = Then spake to Illan, Fergus’ kindlier son, The Ruthless Red; ‘Small faith in us they place!’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	spake	speak	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Illan	Illan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	kindlier	kindly	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Ruthless	Ruthless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
13	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | Illan and the Ruthless |  | then |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to illan=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **place** |  | Small faith in us |  |  |  |  | sons *= son* *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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