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title: The ‘Tripartite Life of St. Patrick’ is attributed by Colgan and oth… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The ‘Tripartite Life of St. Patrick’ is attributed by Colgan and others to the sixth century, because it mentions as still living many persons known to have died before the close of that age. Who acts: Colgan, Life. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 51

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The ‘Tripartite Life of St. Patrick’ is attributed by Colgan and others to the sixth century, because it mentions as still living many persons known to have died before the close of that age.

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**Who acts:** Colgan, Life · **What happens:** attribute, mention, live, know, die · **To what, where:** Tripartite Life, living many persons

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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 (Colgan, Life), 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:pg78491:1:55
# text = The ‘Tripartite Life of St. Patrick’ is attributed by Colgan and others to the sixth century, because it mentions as still living many persons known to have died before the close of that age.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Tripartite	Tripartite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Life	Life	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:desc	_	_
7	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	attributed	attribute	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Colgan	Colgan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	sixth	sixth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	century	century	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	mentions	mention	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	amod	_	_
26	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
28	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
30	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux	_	_
31	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	28	xcomp	_	_
32	before	before	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	close	close	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	37	det	_	_
37	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attribute** | present · passive | Colgan and others | the Tripartite Life of Patrick  St. |  |  | century |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mention** *speech: other* | present | Life |  |  |  |  | as living many persons | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  |  | still |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **know** | participle |  | living many persons *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **die** | to-infinitive · perfect |  |  |  |  | before the close of that age |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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