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title: Then Deirdré, as the battle raged below, Spake lightly thus, while o… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Deirdré, as the battle raged below, Spake lightly thus, while on she pushed a pawn, ‘Buini has gone like Fergus--let him go!’ Who acts: mist, Buini, you, Deirdré. 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 dep
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 97

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Then Deirdré, as the battle raged below, Spake lightly thus, while on she pushed a pawn, ‘Buini has gone like Fergus--let him go!’

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**Who acts:** mist, Buini, you, Deirdré · **What happens:** rage, push, go, let · **To what, where:** battle, pawn, Deirdré

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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 (mist, Buini, you, Deirdré), 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:pg78491:6:98
# text = Then Deirdré, as the battle raged below, Spake lightly thus, while on she pushed a pawn, ‘Buini has gone like Fergus--let him go!’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
2	Deirdré	Deirdré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	raged	rage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	below	below	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Spake	speak	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	pawn	pawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Buini	Buini	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	parataxis	_	_
25	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rage** | participle |  | the battle *not said here* |  |  |  | below *property* | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **push** | past | mist | a pawn |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pawn=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | present · perfect | Buini |  |  |  |  | like Fergus | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | Deirdré |  |  | then | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **go** | infinitive | Deirdré *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP 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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