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title: The spell was snapp’d: Humanity returned to man! — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The spell was snapp’d: Humanity returned to man! Who acts: spell, Humanity. 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 162

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The spell was snapp’d: Humanity returned to man!

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**Who acts:** spell, Humanity · **What happens:** be, return · **To what, where:** snapp ’d, man

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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 (spell, Humanity), 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:pg78491:12:164
# text = The spell was snapp’d: Humanity returned to man!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spell	spell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	snapp	snapp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’d	'd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Humanity	Humanity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	TO	_	10	case	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the spell | snapp ’d |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **return** | past | Humanity | snapp ’d *not said here* | man |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent 'd=Theme to man=Destination |

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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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