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title: On Eman Macha[28] ever was his thought, Its walls, its bulwarks, and… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: On Eman Macha[28] ever was his thought, Its walls, its bulwarks, and its Red Branch Knights, The wonder of the world.’ A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11, 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 11, sentence 128

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On Eman Macha\[28\] ever was his thought, Its walls, its bulwarks, and its Red Branch Knights, The wonder of the world.’

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**What happens:** be, wonder · **To what, where:** thought, Eman, world

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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: 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:pg78491:11:130
# text = On Eman Macha[28] ever was his thought, Its walls, its bulwarks, and its Red Branch Knights, The wonder of the world.’
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Eman	Eman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
3	Macha	Macha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	5	punct	_	_
7	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	5	advmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	bulwarks	bulwark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Branch	branch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	Knights	Knight	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	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 |  | Eman's thought and banquet's walls and banquet's bulwarks |  | Eman |  | Knights  banquet's Red Branch *nmod*; banquet's walls and banquet's bulwarks *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wonder** |  |  | the world |  |  |  |  | nom wonder «feeling 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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