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title: Such characteristics may last for centuries, but the end is ever the… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Such characteristics may last for centuries, but the end is ever the same--exertions that amaze, and abortive results. Who acts: Such characteristics, end, exertions. 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 depe
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 109

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Such characteristics may last for centuries, but the end is ever the same--exertions that amaze, and abortive results.

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**Who acts:** Such characteristics, end, exertions · **What happens:** last, be, amaze

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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 (Such characteristics, end, exertions), 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:pg78491:1:113
# text = Such characteristics may last for centuries, but the end is ever the same--exertions that amaze, and abortive results.
1	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	characteristics	characteristic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	last	last	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	14	advmod	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	exertions	exertion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	amaze	amaze	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	abortive	abortive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	results	result	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | may | Such characteristics |  |  |  | century |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | the end |  |  |  | ever | exertions and abortive results *obl*; same *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **amaze** | present | exertions and abortive results |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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