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title: Her king was the subtlest and most powerful of the Irish kings; and… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Her king was the subtlest and most powerful of the Irish kings; and her celebrated ‘Red Branch Knights’ were the most gallant order of Irish chivalry. Who acts: king. 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 depe
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 94

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Her king was the subtlest and most powerful of the Irish kings; and her celebrated ‘Red Branch Knights’ were the most gallant order of Irish chivalry.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** be, celebrate · **To what, where:** Red Branch Knights, gallant order

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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 (king), 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:pg78491:1:98
# text = Her king was the subtlest and most powerful of the Irish kings; and her celebrated ‘Red Branch Knights’ were the most gallant order of Irish chivalry.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	subtlest	subtle	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	8	advmod	_	_
8	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	Branch	Branch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Knights	Knight	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
24	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	25	advmod	_	_
25	gallant	gallant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	chivalry	chivalry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Ulster's king |  |  |  |  | subtle *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Ulster's king *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the Irish kings | tree rules |
| 3 | **celebrate** | participle |  | Red Branch Knights |  |  |  | Ulster *nmod:poss* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | the gallant order |  |  |  | of Irish chivalry | 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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