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title: The Heroic Age had reached its highest greatness shortly before the… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Heroic Age had reached its highest greatness shortly before the Christian Era. Who acts: Heroic Age. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 62

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The Heroic Age had reached its highest greatness shortly before the Christian Era.

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**Who acts:** Heroic Age · **What happens:** reach · **To what, where:** highest greatness

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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 (Heroic Age), 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:pg78491:1:66
# text = The Heroic Age had reached its highest greatness shortly before the Christian Era.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Heroic	heroic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Age	Age	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	amod	_	_
8	greatness	greatness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
10	before	before	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	_	13	flat	_	_
13	Era	Era	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past · perfect | the Heroic Age | reverse's highest greatness |  |  | before the Christian Era | shortly *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent greatness=Theme |

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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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