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description: To Finobar The one thing yet remaining was her pride: Questioned, her answer ever was the same, ‘Onward, to Eman!’ Who acts: one thing, pride, Finobar. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree an
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 115

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To Finobar The one thing yet remaining was her pride: Questioned, her answer ever was the same, ‘Onward, to Eman!’

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**Who acts:** one thing, pride, Finobar · **What happens:** remain, be, question, answer · **To what, where:** pride, Finobar, answer, Eman

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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 (one thing, pride, Finobar), 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:pg78491:14:117
# text = To Finobar The one thing yet remaining was her pride: Questioned, her answer ever was the same, ‘Onward, to Eman!’
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	Finobar	Finobar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
5	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
6	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	remaining	remain	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Questioned	question	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	19	advmod	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Eman	Eman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | gerund | the one thing *not said here* |  |  |  | yet |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | the one thing | Finobar's pride | Finobar |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **question** *speech: other* | participle | Finobar's pride *not said here* | Finobar's answer | Eman |  |  | onward *property* | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Recipient |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  | ever | same *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **answer** |  | Finobar |  |  |  |  |  | nom answer «communication 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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