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title: Connaught was the most barbaric as well as the poorest of them all;… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Connaught was the most barbaric as well as the poorest of them all; while Ulster had even then reached that superiority in strength and wealth, and in civilisation both civil and military, which for so many centuries she retained. Who acts: Connaught, Ulster. 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 93

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Connaught was the most barbaric as well as the poorest of them all; while Ulster had even then reached that superiority in strength and wealth, and in civilisation both civil and military, which for so many centuries she retained.

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**Who acts:** Connaught, Ulster · **What happens:** be, have, reach, retain · **To what, where:** barbaric, superiority, strength

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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 (Connaught, Ulster), 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:pg78491:1:97
# text = Connaught was the most barbaric as well as the poorest of them all; while Ulster had even then reached that superiority in strength and wealth, and in civilisation both civil and military, which for so many centuries she retained.
1	Connaught	Connaught	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	5	advmod	_	_
5	barbaric	barbaric	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	10	cc	_	_
7	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	fixed	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	fixed	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	poorest	poor	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obl	_	_
13	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	Ulster	Ulster	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
18	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
22	superiority	superiority	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	civilisation	civilisation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
31	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc:preconj	_	_
32	civil	civil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	military	military	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obl	_	_
41	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	retained	retain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Connaught | the barbaric |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Connaught *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of readers *= reader* | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | past | Ulster |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **reach** | past | Ulster *not said here* | that superiority |  | strength and wealth | then |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent superiority=Theme |
| 5 | **retain** | past |  |  |  |  | century | which *nsubj*; Ulster *nsubj* | 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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