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title: To an earlier period, the fifth century, belongs the tract entitled… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: To an earlier period, the fifth century, belongs the tract entitled the ‘Battle of Magh Tuireadh,’ or Moytura. Who acts: tract. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 49

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To an earlier period, the fifth century, belongs the tract entitled the ‘Battle of Magh Tuireadh,’ or Moytura.

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**Who acts:** tract · **What happens:** belong, entitle · **To what, where:** Battle

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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 (tract), 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:pg78491:1:53
# text = To an earlier period, the fifth century, belongs the tract entitled the ‘Battle of Magh Tuireadh,’ or Moytura.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
4	period	period	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	fifth	fifth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
10	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	tract	tract	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	entitled	entitle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Battle	Battle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Magh	Magh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	Tuireadh	Tuireadh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
22	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Moytura	Moytura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | present |  |  |  |  |  | to a period | tree rules |
| 2 | **entitle** | past | the tract | the Battle of Magh |  |  |  | Moytura *conj* | tree rules |

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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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