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title: Amid many extravagances they detected doubtless a significance which… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Amid many extravagances they detected doubtless a significance which escapes the half-closed eye of a cynic shrewdness. Who acts: extravagances, significance. 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 t
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 115

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Amid many extravagances they detected doubtless a significance which escapes the half-closed eye of a cynic shrewdness.

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**Who acts:** extravagances, significance · **What happens:** detect, escape, close · **To what, where:** significance, closed eye

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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 (extravagances, significance), 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:pg78491:1:119
# text = Amid many extravagances they detected doubtless a significance which escapes the half-closed eye of a cynic shrewdness.
1	Amid	amid	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	extravagances	extravagance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	detected	detect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	doubtless	doubtless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	significance	significance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	escapes	escape	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	cynic	cynic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	shrewdness	shrewdness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **detect** | past | extravagances *= extravagance* | a significance |  |  |  | amid many extravagances; doubtless *property* | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer significance=Stimulus |
| 2 | **escape** | present | a significance | the closed eye of a cynic shrewdness |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eye=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **close** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | half *compound* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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