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title: Should there ever come a time when the spiritual is the chief object… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Should there ever come a time when the spiritual is the chief object of man’s reverence, the present adulation of mere intellect will be looked on as we regard the enthusiasm bestowed on martial might in days gone by. Who acts: spiritual, we, enthusiasm, man. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave,
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 90

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Should there ever come a time when the spiritual is the chief object of man’s reverence, the present adulation of mere intellect will be looked on as we regard the enthusiasm bestowed on martial might in days gone by.

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**Who acts:** spiritual, we, enthusiasm, man · **What happens:** come, be, look on, regard, bestow, go by · **To what, where:** chief object, enthusiasm, martial

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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 (spiritual, we, enthusiasm, man), 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:pg78491:1:94
# text = Should there ever come a time when the spiritual is the chief object of man’s reverence, the present adulation of mere intellect will be looked on as we regard the enthusiasm bestowed on martial might in days gone by.
1	Should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
3	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	4	advmod	_	_
4	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	spiritual	spiritual	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	object	object	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	reverence	reverence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	adulation	adulation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	intellect	intellect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	regard	regard	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	enthusiasm	enthusiasm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
34	bestowed	bestow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	martial	martial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	obl	_	_
37	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
40	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	ccomp	_	_
41	by	by	ADP	IN	_	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | should |  |  |  | there | ever; time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the spiritual | the chief object |  |  |  | of man's reverence; the present adulation of mere intellect *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **look on** | future · passive |  | the chief object |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 4 | **regard** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 5 | **bestow** | participle |  | the enthusiasm *not said here* |  | martial |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **go by** | might | the enthusiasm |  |  |  | day |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **reverence** |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | nom reverence «feeling transitive»: poss=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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