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title: There with King Bove the widowed man abode Two days amid great feast… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: There with King Bove the widowed man abode Two days amid great feastings. Who acts: widowed man. 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 38

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There with King Bove the widowed man abode Two days amid great feastings.

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**Who acts:** widowed man · **What happens:** widow, abide · **To what, where:** amid great feastings

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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 (widowed man), 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:pg78491:8:38
# text = There with King Bove the widowed man abode Two days amid great feastings.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Bove	Bove	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	widowed	widow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	abode	abide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	amid	amid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	feastings	feasting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **widow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **abide** | past | the widowed man | amid great feastings |  | there | day | with King Bove | tree rules |

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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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