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title: The last great battle ’twixt the old race and new Would find the sam… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The last great battle ’twixt the old race and new Would find the same sad ending as the first.’ Who acts: last great battle. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 53

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The last great battle ’twixt the old race and new Would find the same sad ending as the first.’

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**Who acts:** last great battle · **What happens:** find · **To what, where:** same sad ending

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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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last great battle), 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:pg78491:13:55
# text = The last great battle ’twixt the old race and new Would find the same sad ending as the first.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
5	’	'	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	twixt	twixt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	Would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	ending	ending	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | would | the last great battle and twixt | the same sad ending |  |  |  | as the first; the old race *nsubj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent ending=Theme as first=Attribute |

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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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