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title: What is needed is to select from the original such portions as are a… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 55

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What is needed is to select from the original such portions as are at once the most essential to the story, and the most characteristic, reproducing them in a condensed form, and taking care that the necessary additions bring out the idea, and contain nothing that is not in the spirit, of the original.

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**Who acts:** necessary additions · **What happens:** need, be, reproduce, condense, take, bring out · **To what, where:** original such portions, essential, portions, condensed form, care, idea

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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 (necessary additions), 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:pg78491:1:59
# text = What is needed is to select from the original such portions as are at once the most essential to the story, and the most characteristic, reproducing them in a condensed form, and taking care that the necessary additions bring out the idea, and contain nothing that is not in the spirit, of the original.
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj:outer	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	needed	need	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl:relcl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	select	select	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	original	original	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	portions	portion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	18	advmod	_	_
18	essential	essential	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	26	advmod	_	_
26	characteristic	characteristic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	reproducing	reproduce	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	condensed	condense	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
33	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	taking	take	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	28	conj	_	_
37	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	42	mark	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	necessary	necessary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	additions	addition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	nsubj	_	_
42	bring	bring	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	advcl	_	_
43	out	out	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	idea	idea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	contain	contain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	42	conj	_	_
49	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	48	obj	_	_
50	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	55	nsubj	_	_
51	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	55	cop	_	_
52	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	55	advmod	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
57	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	original	original	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present · passive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF» |
| 2 | **is** | present |  |  |  | the original such portions |  | the characteristic *obl*; What *nsubj:outer*; select *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** | present |  |  |  | the essential to the story |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at essential=Location |
| 4 | **reproduce** | gerund |  | portions *= portion* |  | a condensed form |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 5 | **condense** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **take** | gerund |  | care |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme |
| 7 | **bring out** | present | the necessary additions | the idea |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |
| 8 | **contain** | present | the necessary additions *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  | the original *parataxis* | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme |
| 9 | **not** **is** | present |  |  |  | the spirit |  |  | 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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