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description: To the sixth century belong not a few Irish works of unquestioned authenticity, such as the elegy written by Dallan Forgaill on the death of St. Columba, A.D. Who acts: unquestioned authenticity, Columba. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey D
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 47

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To the sixth century belong not a few Irish works of unquestioned authenticity, such as the elegy written by Dallan Forgaill on the death of St. Columba, A.D.

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**Who acts:** unquestioned authenticity, Columba · **What happens:** not belong, write, work, die · **To what, where:** few Irish works, elegy, death

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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 (unquestioned authenticity, Columba), 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:pg78491:1:51
# text = To the sixth century belong not a few Irish works of unquestioned authenticity, such as the elegy written by Dallan Forgaill on the death of St. Columba, A.D.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	sixth	sixth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	belong	belong	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	unquestioned	unquestioned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	authenticity	authenticity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	18	case	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	fixed	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	elegy	elegy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
19	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Dallan	Dallan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obl:agent	_	_
22	Forgaill	Forgaill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	flat	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:desc	_	_
28	Columba	Columba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	A.D	A.D	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **belong** | present |  | a few Irish works of unquestioned authenticity |  |  | century |  | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **write** | participle |  | the elegy *not said here* |  | the death of Columba  St. and A.D |  | Dallan *obl:agent* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on death=Destination |
| 3 | **work** |  | unquestioned authenticity |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **die** |  | Columba  St. and A.D |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event 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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