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title: The relation in which St. Kiaran stood to the Tain illustrates that… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The relation in which St. Kiaran stood to the Tain illustrates that of the Christian priesthood to the imaginative traditions of Ireland. Who acts: St., relation. 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 112

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The relation in which St. Kiaran stood to the Tain illustrates that of the Christian priesthood to the imaginative traditions of Ireland.

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**Who acts:** St., relation · **What happens:** stand, illustrate · **To what, where:** relation

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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 (St., relation), 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:pg78491:1:116
# text = The relation in which St. Kiaran stood to the Tain illustrates that of the Christian priesthood to the imaginative traditions of Ireland.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	relation	relation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	_
5	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Kiaran	Kiaran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Tain	Tain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	illustrates	illustrate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	priesthood	priesthood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	imaginative	imaginative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	traditions	tradition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | St. |  |  | the relation |  | to the Tain | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in which=Location |
| 2 | **illustrate** | present | the relation |  |  |  |  | the Christian priesthood to the imaginative traditions of Ireland *ccomp* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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