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title: The living bards and the clergy could not but be rivals, but it was… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The living bards and the clergy could not but be rivals, but it was often a friendly rivalship; and as regards the bards of past centuries, there was no room for jealousy. Who acts: living bards, clergy, room. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aub
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 113

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The living bards and the clergy could not but be rivals, but it was often a friendly rivalship; and as regards the bards of past centuries, there was no room for jealousy.

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**Who acts:** living bards, clergy, room · **What happens:** be, regard · **To what, where:** rivals, friendly rivalship, bards

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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 (living bards, clergy, room), 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:pg78491:1:117
# text = The living bards and the clergy could not but be rivals, but it was often a friendly rivalship; and as regards the bards of past centuries, there was no room for jealousy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bards	bard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	clergy	clergy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	cop	_	_
11	rivals	rival	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
16	often	often	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	friendly	friendly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	rivalship	rivalship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	as	as	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	regards	regard	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	bards	bard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	31	expl	_	_
31	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	parataxis	_	_
32	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	33	det	_	_
33	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
34	for	for	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | could | the living bards | rivals but a friendly rivalship |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past | clergy | a friendly rivalship |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **regard** | present |  | the bards of past centuries |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bard=Theme |
| 4 | **be** | past | no room for jealousy |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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