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title: But ere her lord replied, Deirdré spake first, with queenly port and… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But ere her lord replied, Deirdré spake first, with queenly port and pride: Who acts: lord. 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 8

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But ere her lord replied, Deirdré spake first, with queenly port and pride:

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**Who acts:** lord · **What happens:** ere, reply · **To what, where:** Deirdré spake

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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 (lord), 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:pg78491:6:8
# text = But ere her lord replied, Deirdré spake first, with queenly port and pride:
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	ere	ere	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Deirdré	Deirdré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	queenly	queenly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	port	port	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ere** | past |  | Deirdré spake |  |  |  | queenly port and pride *parataxis*; first *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | Naisi's lord |  |  |  |  |  | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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