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title: The inferior nation can neither use nor retain the advantages accide… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The inferior nation can neither use nor retain the advantages accidentally and dishonestly gained, and defeat succeeds to triumph. Who acts: inferior nation, defeat. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 1, with its depen
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 101

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The inferior nation can neither use nor retain the advantages accidentally and dishonestly gained, and defeat succeeds to triumph.

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**Who acts:** inferior nation, defeat · **What happens:** use, retain, gain, succeed · **To what, where:** advantages, triumph

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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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inferior nation, defeat), 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:pg78491:1:105
# text = The inferior nation can neither use nor retain the advantages accidentally and dishonestly gained, and defeat succeeds to triumph.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	inferior	inferior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	use	use	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	8	cc	_	_
8	retain	retain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	advantages	advantage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	accidentally	accidentally	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	dishonestly	dishonestly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	defeat	defeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	succeeds	succeed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	triumph	triumph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | can | the inferior nation |  |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **retain** | infinitive | the inferior nation *not said here* | the advantages |  |  |  | accidentally *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **gain** | past | the inferior nation *not said here* |  |  |  |  | dishonestly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **succeed** | present | defeat | triumph |  |  |  |  | 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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