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title: King Lir, a fortnight more in revels spent, Made journey to his cast… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: King Lir, a fortnight more in revels spent, Made journey to his castle in the North With her, his youthful consort, well content. Who acts: revels. 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
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 44

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King Lir, a fortnight more in revels spent, Made journey to his castle in the North With her, his youthful consort, well content.

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**Who acts:** revels · **What happens:** spend, make · **To what, where:** revels, journey, King

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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 (revels), 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:pg78491:8:44
# text = King Lir, a fortnight more in revels spent, Made journey to his castle in the North With her, his youthful consort, well content.
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Lir	Lir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fortnight	fortnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	1	amod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	revels	revel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
9	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
12	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	With	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	youthful	youthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	consort	consort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	well	well	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spend** | participle |  | revels *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **make** | participle | revels *not said here* | journey |  |  |  | to King's castle in the North with Love and King's youthful consort and well content | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset journey=Product |

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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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