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title: The worse for Eman, and great Macha’s land-- Stand forth, my sister’… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The worse for Eman, and great Macha’s land-- Stand forth, my sister’s son!” Who acts: land. 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 202

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The worse for Eman, and great Macha’s land-- Stand forth, my sister’s son!”

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**Who acts:** land · **What happens:** stand

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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 (land), 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:pg78491:11:204
# text = The worse for Eman, and great Macha’s land-- Stand forth, my sister’s son!”
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	advcl	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Eman	Eman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Macha	Macha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
13	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	sister	sister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | infinitive | great Macha's land |  |  |  |  | my sister's son *vocative*; forth *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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