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title: All that their country had been they forgot; and the near future the… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: All that their country had been they forgot; and the near future they looked on through what the Tain calls ‘a mist of imbecility,’ and attributes to witchcraft. Who acts: country, fortunes, near future, Tain. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aub
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 99

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All that their country had been they forgot; and the near future they looked on through what the Tain calls ‘a mist of imbecility,’ and attributes to witchcraft.

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**Who acts:** country, fortunes, near future, Tain · **What happens:** be, forget, look on, call, attribute, mist · **To what, where:** mist, imbecility · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (country, fortunes, near future, Tain), 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:pg78491:1:103
# text = All that their country had been they forgot; and the near future they looked on through what the Tain calls ‘a mist of imbecility,’ and attributes to witchcraft.
1	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
2	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	forgot	forget	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	near	near	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	through	through	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Tain	Tain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	calls	call	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
22	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	imbecility	imbecility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	attributes	attribute	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	witchcraft	witchcraft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past · perfect | fortunes's country |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **forget** | past | fortunes *= fortune* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **look on** | past | the near future |  |  |  |  | fortunes *= fortune* *nsubj*; what *obl* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through what=Theme |
| 4 | **call** | present | the Tain | a mist of imbecility |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mist=Recipient |
| 5 | **attribute** | present | the Tain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to witchcraft | tree rules |
| 6 | **mist** |  |  | imbecility |  |  |  |  | nom mist «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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