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description: The Tain, a work which, while abounding in passion, distinctly includes an element of humour and irony, suffers nothing from a revulsion so strange. Who acts: work, Tain. 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 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 104

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The Tain, a work which, while abounding in passion, distinctly includes an element of humour and irony, suffers nothing from a revulsion so strange.

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**Who acts:** work, Tain · **What happens:** abound, include, suffer · **To what, where:** passion, element, nothing, revulsion

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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 (work, Tain), 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:pg78491:1:108
# text = The Tain, a work which, while abounding in passion, distinctly includes an element of humour and irony, suffers nothing from a revulsion so strange.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Tain	Tain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	abounding	abound	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	includes	include	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	element	element	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	humour	humour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	irony	irony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
22	suffers	suffer	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	22	obj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	revulsion	revulsion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **abound** | gerund | a work |  |  | passion |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in passion=Location |
| 2 | **include** | present | a work *not said here* | a element of humour and irony |  |  |  | distinctly *property* | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent element=Theme |
| 3 | **suffer** | present | the Tain | nothing |  | a revulsion |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |

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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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