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title: King Bove, chief sovereign of the dark-haired race, Sent to him sayi… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: King Bove, chief sovereign of the dark-haired race, Sent to him saying, ‘Quit thee like a man! Who acts: King. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 8, 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 8, sentence 34

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King Bove, chief sovereign of the dark-haired race, Sent to him saying, ‘Quit thee like a man!

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** send, say · **To what, where:** dark haired race, King · **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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg78491:8:34
# text = King Bove, chief sovereign of the dark-haired race, Sent to him saying, ‘Quit thee like a man!
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
2	Bove	Bove	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
8	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	haired	haired	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Quit	quit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	_
20	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | participle |  | the dark haired race *not said here* | King |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=Destination |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | King |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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