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title: Yet even they, scarcely excepting Diarmid, Oscar, and Fionn himself,… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet even they, scarcely excepting Diarmid, Oscar, and Fionn himself, though the terror of Ireland’s provincial kings till their power, rendered too exacting by long success, was extinguished by a single fatal reverse, were never counted equal to the mighty ones of her earlier time. Who acts: contemp
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 61

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Yet even they, scarcely excepting Diarmid, Oscar, and Fionn himself, though the terror of Ireland’s provincial kings till their power, rendered too exacting by long success, was extinguished by a single fatal reverse, were never counted equal to the mighty ones of her earlier time.

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**Who acts:** contemporaries, single fatal reverse · **What happens:** except, render, exact, extinguish, not count · **To what, where:** Diarmid

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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 (contemporaries, single fatal reverse), 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:pg78491:1:65
# text = Yet even they, scarcely excepting Diarmid, Oscar, and Fionn himself, though the terror of Ireland’s provincial kings till their power, rendered too exacting by long success, was extinguished by a single fatal reverse, were never counted equal to the mighty ones of her earlier time.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	even	even	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	excepting	except	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
7	Diarmid	Diarmid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	Oscar	Oscar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	Fionn	Fionn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	though	though	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	provincial	provincial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
23	till	till	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
27	rendered	render	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	too	too	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	exacting	exact	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
30	by	by	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux:pass	_	_
35	extinguished	extinguish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
39	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	reverse	reverse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
43	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	44	advmod	_	_
44	counted	count	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
45	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	xcomp	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
48	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	45	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
52	earlier	early	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	53	amod	_	_
53	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **except** | gerund | contemporaries *= contemporary* | Diarmid  Oscar  Oscar |  |  |  | though the terror of Ireland's provincial kings till contemporaries's power; scarcely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **render** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **exact** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | by long success | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **extinguish** | past · passive | a single fatal reverse |  |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **not** **count** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | equal *property* | vn matter-91 «NP V» |

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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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