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title: [26] Daughters six had he: I, Meave, of these was fairest and most f… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: [26] Daughters six had he: I, Meave, of these was fairest and most famed! Who acts: Daughters, Meave. 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 21

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\[26\] Daughters six had he: I, Meave, of these was fairest and most famed!

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**Who acts:** Daughters, Meave · **What happens:** have, be, fame · **To what, where:** 26, these

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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 (Daughters, Meave), 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:pg78491:11:23
# text = [26] Daughters six had he: I, Meave, of these was fairest and most famed!
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	26	26	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Daughters	Daughter	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	flat	_	_
6	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
14	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	fairest	fair	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	19	advmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	19	advmod	_	_
19	famed	fame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Daughters | 26 |  |  |  | husband *obj*; Meave  I *parataxis* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | fair *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fame** | participle · passive | Meave  I *not said here* | these |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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