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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 10

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The Mor Reega, the War-Goddess of the Gael, prophesies to him that there yet awaits him the greatest of his trials.

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**Who acts:** Mor Reega, CUCHULLAIN · **What happens:** prophesy, await, try · **To what, where:** CUCHULLAIN

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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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mor Reega, 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:pg78491:12:12
# text = The Mor Reega, the War-Goddess of the Gael, prophesies to him that there yet awaits him the greatest of his trials.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Mor	Mor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Reega	Reega	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	War	War	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Goddess	Goddess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Gael	Gael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	prophesies	prophesy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
18	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	awaits	await	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	greatest	great	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	trials	trial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prophesy** | present | the Mor Reega |  | CUCHULLAIN |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **await** | present | the Mor Reega *not said here* | CUCHULLAIN |  | there | yet |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **try** |  | CUCHULLAIN |  |  |  |  |  | nom trial «act transitive»: 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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