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title: It is not unlikely that the apostle from Clonmacnoise and Iona often… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is not unlikely that the apostle from Clonmacnoise and Iona often cheered his way over the Northumbrian moors or through the Teuton forest with a ballad about Cuchullain as well as with a Latin hymn of Sedulius. Who acts: apostle, Northumbrian, Sedulius. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, a
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 131

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It is not unlikely that the apostle from Clonmacnoise and Iona often cheered his way over the Northumbrian moors or through the Teuton forest with a ballad about Cuchullain as well as with a Latin hymn of Sedulius.

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**Who acts:** apostle, Northumbrian, Sedulius · **What happens:** not be, cheer, moor, hymn · **To what, where:** way

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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 (apostle, Northumbrian, Sedulius), 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:pg78491:1:135
# text = It is not unlikely that the apostle from Clonmacnoise and Iona often cheered his way over the Northumbrian moors or through the Teuton forest with a ballad about Cuchullain as well as with a Latin hymn of Sedulius.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	unlikely	unlikely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	apostle	apostle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Clonmacnoise	clonmacnoise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Iona	Iona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	cheered	cheer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	over	over	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Northumbrian	Northumbrian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	moors	moor	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	through	through	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Teuton	Teuton	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	ballad	ballad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	about	about	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	36	cc	_	_
31	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	fixed	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Latin	Latin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	hymn	hymn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Sedulius	Sedulius	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | unlikely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cheer** | past | the apostle from Clonmacnoise and Iona | apostle's way |  |  |  | often *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus way=Experiencer |
| 3 | **moor** | present | the Northumbrian | apostle's way *not said here* |  |  |  | the Teuton forest with a ballad about Cuchullain as a Latin hymn of Sedulius *conj* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 4 | **hymn** |  | Sedulius |  |  |  |  |  | nom hymn «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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