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title: Of these the last Was Rochad, and the proudest, in the North A vassa… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of these the last Was Rochad, and the proudest, in the North A vassal prince of Conor’s, oft his foe: The passion she had kindled she had scorned: Rochad had vowed revenge. Who acts: foe, Rochad. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, O
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 113

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Of these the last Was Rochad, and the proudest, in the North A vassal prince of Conor’s, oft his foe: The passion she had kindled she had scorned: Rochad had vowed revenge.

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**Who acts:** foe, Rochad · **What happens:** kindle, scorn, vow · **To what, where:** passion, foe, revenge

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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 (foe, Rochad), 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:pg78491:14:115
# text = Of these the last Was Rochad, and the proudest, in the North A vassal prince of Conor’s, oft his foe: The passion she had kindled she had scorned: Rochad had vowed revenge.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	last	Last	PROPN	NNP	_	6	compound	_	_
5	Was	Was	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	Rochad	Rochad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	proudest	proud	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
15	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	vassal	vassal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Conor	Conor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
26	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	kindled	kindle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	acl:relcl	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	scorned	scorn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
35	Rochad	Rochad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
36	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
37	vowed	vow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
38	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	37	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kindle** | past · perfect · passive | Conor's foe *not said here* | the passion |  |  |  | foe *nsubj:pass* | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **scorn** | past · perfect · passive |  | foe |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **vow** | past · perfect | Rochad | revenge |  |  |  |  | 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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