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title: The all-conquering years Conquered not her: the strength of endless… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The all-conquering years Conquered not her: the strength of endless prime Lived in her royal tread and breast and eye A life immortal. Who acts: conquering years, strength, warrioress. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, par
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 12

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The all-conquering years Conquered not her: the strength of endless prime Lived in her royal tread and breast and eye A life immortal.

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**Who acts:** conquering years, strength, warrioress · **What happens:** conquer, not conquer, live, tread · **To what, where:** warrioress, life immortal, royal tread

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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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (conquering years, strength, warrioress), 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:pg78491:11:14
# text = The all-conquering years Conquered not her: the strength of endless prime Lived in her royal tread and breast and eye A life immortal.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	conquering	conquer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	Conquered	conquer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	endless	endless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	prime	prime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	Lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	tread	tread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
24	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	immortal	immortal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conquer** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **conquer** | past | the conquering years | warrioress |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **live** | past | the strength of endless prime | a life immortal |  | warrioress's royal tread and breast and eye |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tread=Location |
| 4 | **tread** |  | warrioress |  |  |  |  |  | nom tread «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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