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title: Without any apparent cause her strength changed to weakness, and her… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Without any apparent cause her strength changed to weakness, and her wisdom to folly. Who acts: strength. 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 96

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Without any apparent cause her strength changed to weakness, and her wisdom to folly.

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**Who acts:** strength · **What happens:** change · **To what, where:** wisdom

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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 (strength), 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:pg78491:1:100
# text = Without any apparent cause her strength changed to weakness, and her wisdom to folly.
1	Without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	apparent	apparent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	cause	cause	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	weakness	weakness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	folly	folly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past | Ulster's strength | Ulster's wisdom to folly |  |  |  | to weakness *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Agent to weakness=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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