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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 69

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Again she mused, ‘A man love-worthy if he loved again!-- At best ’twould be to him a moment’s sport!

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**Who acts:** honour, man, moment · **What happens:** muse, love, be, sport · **To what, where:** ’

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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 (honour, man, moment), 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:pg78491:11:71
# text = Again she mused, ‘A man love-worthy if he loved again!-- At best ’twould be to him a moment’s sport!
1	Again	again	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	mused	muse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
8	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	worthy	worthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
11	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
14	again	again	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	At	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	best	well	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	19	advmod	_	_
19	’	'	X	GW	_	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	twould	twould	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	cop	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	goeswith	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **muse** | past | honour | ’ |  |  | again |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **love** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | man |  |  |  | again |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** |  |  |  |  |  |  | to man | tree rules |
| 4 | **sport** |  | a moment |  |  |  |  |  | nom sport «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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