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title: At once the Three replied, ‘Because we never feared and cannot fear… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: At once the Three replied, ‘Because we never feared and cannot fear To Eman on we will whate’er betide!’ Who acts: Three, we. 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 c
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 38

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At once the Three replied, ‘Because we never feared and cannot fear To Eman on we will whate’er betide!’

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**Who acts:** Three, we · **What happens:** reply, not fear, whate'er, betide · **To what, where:** Eman

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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 (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:pg78491:6:39
# text = At once the Three replied, ‘Because we never feared and cannot fear To Eman on we will whate’er betide!’
1	At	at	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Three	Three	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	fear	fear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
16	To	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Eman	Eman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	whate’er	whate'er	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
22	betide	betide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Three |  |  |  |  | once *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **fear** | past | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **fear** | can | we *not said here* |  | Eman |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **whate'er** | future | we |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **betide** | infinitive | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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