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title: In his wars Emulous those mated marvels drag his car: In peace he yo… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In his wars Emulous those mated marvels drag his car: In peace he yokes them never.’ Who acts: Emulous mated marvels, marvel, Cuchullain. 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 pragmati
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 235

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In his wars Emulous those mated marvels drag his car: In peace he yokes them never.’

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**Who acts:** Emulous mated marvels, marvel, Cuchullain · **What happens:** mate, drag, not yoke, war · **To what, where:** car, wars, head, peace

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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 (Emulous mated marvels, marvel, Cuchullain), 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:pg78491:11:237
# text = In his wars Emulous those mated marvels drag his car: In peace he yokes them never.’
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
4	Emulous	emulous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	mated	mate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	marvels	marvel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	drag	drag	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	In	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	yokes	yoke	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **drag** | present | that Emulous mated marvels | Cuchullain's car |  | Cuchullain's wars |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **yoke** | present | marvel | head |  | peace |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination |
| 4 | **war** |  | Cuchullain |  |  |  |  |  | nom war «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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