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title: Everywhere he finds the contrast between the emotional in excess and… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Everywhere he finds the contrast between the emotional in excess and an all but complete absence of discipline, whether moral or mental. Who acts: whole. 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 dependency tree a
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 108

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Everywhere he finds the contrast between the emotional in excess and an all but complete absence of discipline, whether moral or mental.

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**Who acts:** whole · **What happens:** find, absent · **To what, where:** contrast, discipline

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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 (whole), 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:pg78491:1:112
# text = Everywhere he finds the contrast between the emotional in excess and an all but complete absence of discipline, whether moral or mental.
1	Everywhere	everywhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	finds	find	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	contrast	contrast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	between	between	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	emotional	emotional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	nmod	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	excess	excess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	conj	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	absence	absence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	discipline	discipline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
21	moral	moral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	mental	mental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | present | whole | the contrast |  |  |  | between the emotional in excess; moral *parataxis*; everywhere *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contrast=Topic |
| 2 | **absent** |  |  | discipline |  |  |  |  | nom absence «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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