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title: It is not in the form of translation that an ancient Irish tale of a… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is not in the form of translation that an ancient Irish tale of any considerable length admits of being rendered in poetry. Who acts: Poem, ancient Irish tale, considerable length. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 54

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It is not in the form of translation that an ancient Irish tale of any considerable length admits of being rendered in poetry.

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**Who acts:** Poem, ancient Irish tale, considerable length · **What happens:** not be, admit, render, tell · **To what, where:** form, that, poetry · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Poem, ancient Irish tale, considerable length), 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:pg78491:1:58
# text = It is not in the form of translation that an ancient Irish tale of any considerable length admits of being rendered in poetry.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obj	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
16	considerable	considerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
18	admits	admit	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
19	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	rendered	render	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	xcomp	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | present | Poem |  |  | the form |  | of translation | tree rules |
| 2 | **admit** *speech: other* | present | a ancient Irish tale of any considerable length | that |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **render** | gerund · passive | a ancient Irish tale of any considerable length *not said here* |  |  | poetry |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient» |
| 4 | **tell** |  | any considerable length |  |  |  |  |  | nom tale «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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