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title: And gat him down; and shouted Fergus’ name: And straight a host arou… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And gat him down; and shouted Fergus’ name: And straight a host around him flocking came. Who acts: you, host, name, Fergus. 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 cl
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 89

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And gat him down; and shouted Fergus’ name: And straight a host around him flocking came.

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**Who acts:** you, host, name, Fergus · **What happens:** gat down, shout, flock, come, name · **To what, where:** sire · **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, host, name, Fergus), 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:pg78491:6:90
# text = And gat him down; and shouted Fergus’ name: And straight a host around him flocking came.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	gat	gat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
16	around	around	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
18	flocking	flock	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gat down** | imperative | you *not said here* | sire |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **flock** | gerund | a host around sire *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **come** | past | Fergus's name |  |  |  |  | a host around sire *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **name** |  | Fergus |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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