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title: ‘Help, Cathbad! last of friends! — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Help, Cathbad! last of friends! A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 7, 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 7, sentence 44

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‘Help, Cathbad! last of friends!

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**To what, where:** Help

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg78491:7:44
# text = ‘Help, Cathbad! last of friends!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Cathbad	Cathbad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
6	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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