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title: The Red Branch House Was changed to hospital; and knights full-armed… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Red Branch House Was changed to hospital; and knights full-armed Nodded o’er lepers’ beds. Who acts: knights. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12, 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 12, sentence 146

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The Red Branch House Was changed to hospital; and knights full-armed Nodded o’er lepers’ beds.

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**Who acts:** knights · **What happens:** change, nod, bed · **To what, where:** Red Branch House

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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 (knights), 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:pg78491:12:148
# text = The Red Branch House Was changed to hospital; and knights full-armed Nodded o’er lepers’ beds.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Red	Red	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Branch	Branch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	House	House	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	hospital	hospital	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
12	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	Nodded	nod	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	o’er	o'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	lepers	leper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past · passive |  | the Red Branch House |  |  |  | to hospital | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **nod** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **bed** |  | knights |  |  |  |  | armed o’er lepers *nmod:poss* | 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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