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title: Without an hour’s misgiving or remorse In beauty’s pride not less th… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Without an hour’s misgiving or remorse In beauty’s pride not less than patriot zeal-- Wilier she was than Meave, and haughtier far-- Champion on champion she had sent to doom Beside that fatal Ford. Who acts: trial, champion, hour, beauty. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends o
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 103

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Without an hour’s misgiving or remorse In beauty’s pride not less than patriot zeal-- Wilier she was than Meave, and haughtier far-- Champion on champion she had sent to doom Beside that fatal Ford.

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**Who acts:** trial, champion, hour, beauty · **What happens:** be, send, doom, misgive, pride · **To what, where:** champion, fatal Ford

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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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trial, champion, hour, beauty), 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:pg78491:14:105
# text = Without an hour’s misgiving or remorse In beauty’s pride not less than patriot zeal-- Wilier she was than Meave, and haughtier far-- Champion on champion she had sent to doom Beside that fatal Ford.
1	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	misgiving	misgiving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	remorse	remorse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	In	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
14	than	than	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	patriot	patriot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	zeal	zeal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Wilier	wily	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	conj	_	_
19	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	haughtier	haughty	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	conj	_	_
26	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Champion	champion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	champion	champion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	doom	doom	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	xcomp	_	_
36	Beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	39	nsubj	_	_
38	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	Ford	Ford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | trial |  |  |  |  | than Meave | tree rules |
| 2 | **send** | past · perfect | trial | champion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **doom** | to-infinitive | champion *not said here* |  |  | fatal Ford  that |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **misgive** |  | a hour |  |  |  |  |  | nom misgiving «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **pride** |  | beauty |  |  |  |  |  | nom pride «feeling 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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