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title: ‘Long time, methinks, at feast doth Fergus tarry-- Good speed for th… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Long time, methinks, at feast doth Fergus tarry-- Good speed for that crowned hawk which hangs on high With beak turned downward t’ward his skiey quarry!’ Who acts: Fergus, crowned hawk. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 87

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‘Long time, methinks, at feast doth Fergus tarry-- Good speed for that crowned hawk which hangs on high With beak turned downward t’ward his skiey quarry!’

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**Who acts:** Fergus, crowned hawk · **What happens:** do, speed, crown, hang, turn · **To what, where:** feast, high

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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, crowned hawk), 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:pg78491:6:88
# text = ‘Long time, methinks, at feast doth Fergus tarry-- Good speed for that crowned hawk which hangs on high With beak turned downward t’ward his skiey quarry!’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	methinks	methink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
9	doth	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	tarry	tarry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	Good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	crowned	crown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	hawk	hawk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	hangs	hang	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	obl	_	_
23	With	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	beak	beak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
25	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
26	downward	downward	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	t’ward	t'ward	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	skiey	skiey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	quarry	quarry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present |  |  |  | feast | time |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **speed** |  | Fergus |  |  |  |  | for that crowned hawk | tree rules |
| 3 | **crown** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **hang** | present | that crowned hawk |  |  | high |  | with beak | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on high=Location |
| 5 | **turn** | participle | that crowned hawk *not said here* |  |  |  |  | t'ward Fergus's skiey quarry; downward *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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