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title: If Ireland, once converted to the faith, filled the world with her m… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: If Ireland, once converted to the faith, filled the world with her missions, there must have existed in her previously a thoughtfulness as well as a fearlessness each of which found its way at last into the nobler fields of enterprise. Who acts: Ireland, fearlessness. A sentence of «The foray of Que
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 130

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If Ireland, once converted to the faith, filled the world with her missions, there must have existed in her previously a thoughtfulness as well as a fearlessness each of which found its way at last into the nobler fields of enterprise.

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**Who acts:** Ireland, fearlessness · **What happens:** fill, exist, find · **To what, where:** world, thoughtfulness, way, last

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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 (Ireland, fearlessness), 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:pg78491:1:134
# text = If Ireland, once converted to the faith, filled the world with her missions, there must have existed in her previously a thoughtfulness as well as a fearlessness each of which found its way at last into the nobler fields of enterprise.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
5	converted	converted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	missions	mission	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
18	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux	_	_
20	existed	exist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	parataxis	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	previously	previously	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	thoughtfulness	thoughtfulness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	30	cc	_	_
27	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	26	fixed	_	_
28	as	as	ADP	IN	_	26	fixed	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	fearlessness	fearlessness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
31	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
35	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	at	at	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	obl	_	_
39	into	into	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	nobler	noble	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	42	amod	_	_
42	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	enterprise	enterprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | past | Ireland | the world |  |  |  | with IRELAND's missions | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent world=Patient with mission=Instrument |
| 2 | **exist** | must · perfect |  | a thoughtfulness |  | there |  | in IRELAND; a fearlessness *conj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in she=Location |
| 3 | **find** | past | a fearlessness | nature's way |  | last |  | into the nobler fields of enterprise | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent way=Theme at last=Asset |

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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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