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title: The more astonishing, consequently, was the utter prostration, a def… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The more astonishing, consequently, was the utter prostration, a defeat without a battle, into which she so suddenly fell. Who acts: astonishing, Ulster. 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 a
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 95

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The more astonishing, consequently, was the utter prostration, a defeat without a battle, into which she so suddenly fell.

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**Who acts:** astonishing, Ulster · **What happens:** be, fall · **To what, where:** utter prostration

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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 (astonishing, 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:pg78491:1:99
# text = The more astonishing, consequently, was the utter prostration, a defeat without a battle, into which she so suddenly fell.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
3	astonishing	astonishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	consequently	consequently	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	utter	utter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	prostration	prostration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	defeat	defeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
14	without	without	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the astonishing | the utter prostration and a defeat without a battle |  |  |  | a defeat without a battle *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | past | Ulster |  |  | the utter prostration and a defeat without a battle |  | suddenly *property* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into which=Result |

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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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