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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 25

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The Brothers saw, and followed fast--and I-- Ah, that for me those peerless Three should die!’

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**Who acts:** Brothers, that · **What happens:** see, follow, die

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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 (Brothers, that), 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:pg78491:6:26
# text = The Brothers saw, and followed fast--and I-- Ah, that for me those peerless Three should die!’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Brothers	Brother	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	xcomp	_	_
7	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nmod	_	_
17	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	peerless	peerless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Three	Three	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the Brothers |  |  |  |  | I *conj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **follow** | participle | the Brothers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **die** | should | that for me |  |  |  |  | that peerless Three *nsubj* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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