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title: The teachers of those days doubtless believed that religion could af… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The teachers of those days doubtless believed that religion could afford to be indulgent towards minstrels who had been true to such lesser lights as they possessed. Who acts: teachers, religion, minstrels. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 122

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The teachers of those days doubtless believed that religion could afford to be indulgent towards minstrels who had been true to such lesser lights as they possessed.

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**Who acts:** teachers, religion, minstrels · **What happens:** believe, afford, be, possess · **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 (teachers, religion, minstrels), 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:pg78491:1:126
# text = The teachers of those days doubtless believed that religion could afford to be indulgent towards minstrels who had been true to such lesser lights as they possessed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	teachers	teacher	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	doubtless	doubtless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
7	believed	believe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	afford	afford	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	cop	_	_
14	indulgent	indulgent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
15	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	minstrels	minstrel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	cop	_	_
20	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	lesser	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	24	amod	_	_
24	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	possessed	possess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **believe** | past | the teachers of that days |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **afford** | could | religion |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive | religion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | towards minstrels; indulgent *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past · perfect | minstrels |  |  |  |  | to such lesser lights; true *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **possess** | past | teachers *= teacher* |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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