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title: The explanation is that a poem true to the time and to the character… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The explanation is that a poem true to the time and to the characters it commemorates, teaches by necessity what they teach. Who acts: explanation, Poem, readers. 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 dependen
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 111

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The explanation is that a poem true to the time and to the characters it commemorates, teaches by necessity what they teach.

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**Who acts:** explanation, Poem, readers · **What happens:** be, commemorate, teach · **To what, where:** characters · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (explanation, Poem, readers), 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:pg78491:1:115
# text = The explanation is that a poem true to the time and to the characters it commemorates, teaches by necessity what they teach.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	explanation	explanation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	commemorates	commemorate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	teaches	teach	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	necessity	necessity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	23	obj	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	teach	teach	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the explanation |  |  |  | time | a poem *nsubj*; true *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **commemorate** | present | Poem | the characters *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=Theme |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | present |  |  |  |  |  | by necessity | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **teach** *speech: other* | present | readers *= reader* |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient |

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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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