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title: It belongs also to that merely conventional civilisation which has s… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: It belongs also to that merely conventional civilisation which has scanty dealings either with nature or with the supernatural. Who acts: literature, conventional civilisation. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 1, wit
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 126

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It belongs also to that merely conventional civilisation which has scanty dealings either with nature or with the supernatural.

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**Who acts:** literature, conventional civilisation · **What happens:** belong, have · **To what, where:** scanty dealings

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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 (literature, conventional civilisation), 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:pg78491:1:130
# text = It belongs also to that merely conventional civilisation which has scanty dealings either with nature or with the supernatural.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
6	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	conventional	conventional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	civilisation	civilisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	scanty	scanty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	dealings	dealing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	10	advmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	supernatural	supernatural	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | present | literature |  |  |  |  | to that conventional civilisation | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | that conventional civilisation | scanty dealings |  |  |  | with nature or the supernatural; either *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dealing=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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