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title: But when of Lir King Bove had made demand, She answered thus: ‘Enough! — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But when of Lir King Bove had made demand, She answered thus: ‘Enough! Who acts: sun. 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 79

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But when of Lir King Bove had made demand, She answered thus: ‘Enough!

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**Who acts:** sun · **What happens:** make, answer · **To what, where:** Lir

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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 (sun), 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:pg78491:8:79
# text = But when of Lir King Bove had made demand, She answered thus: ‘Enough!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Lir	Lir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Bove	Bove	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
9	demand	demand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
11	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · perfect · passive |  | Lir |  |  |  | demand *xcomp* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | sun |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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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