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title: Occasionally they added to old legends an interpolation which might… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Occasionally they added to old legends an interpolation which might have surprised those who had first sung them. Who acts: extravagances. 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 tree and the pragmati
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 116

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Occasionally they added to old legends an interpolation which might have surprised those who had first sung them.

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**Who acts:** extravagances · **What happens:** add, surprise, sing · **To what, where:** interpolation, extravagances

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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), 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:pg78491:1:120
# text = Occasionally they added to old legends an interpolation which might have surprised those who had first sung them.
1	Occasionally	occasionally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	interpolation	interpolation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux	_	_
12	surprised	surprise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	obj	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	17	advmod	_	_
17	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | extravagances *= extravagance* |  |  |  |  | to old legends; occasionally *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to legend=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **surprise** | might · perfect · passive |  | a interpolation |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer that=Result |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · perfect · passive |  | extravagances *= extravagance* |  |  |  | who *nsubj:pass*; first *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary they=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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