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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 56

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An attempt to introduce to modern readers a work so ancient, and connected with allusions so unfamiliar, seems to call for some remarks on the character of that work, and on the age which produced it.

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**Who acts:** attempt · **What happens:** introduce, connect, seem, call, produce · **To what, where:** work, attempt, character, age · **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 (attempt), 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:pg78491:1:60
# text = An attempt to introduce to modern readers a work so ancient, and connected with allusions so unfamiliar, seems to call for some remarks on the character of that work, and on the age which produced it.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	introduce	introduce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	acl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	readers	reader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	connected	connect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	allusions	allusion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	unfamiliar	unfamiliar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
20	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
25	remarks	remark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	nsubj	_	_
38	produced	produce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
39	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **introduce** | to-infinitive | a attempt *not said here* | a work |  |  |  | to modern readers | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent work=Patient to reader=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **connect** | participle |  | a attempt *not said here* |  |  |  | with allusions; unfamiliar *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Patient with allusion=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **seem** | present | a attempt |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **call** | to-infinitive | a attempt *not said here* |  |  | the character of that work |  | for some remarks | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for remark=Recipient |
| 5 | **produce** | past |  | attempt |  |  | on the age | which *nsubj* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Result |

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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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