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title: Slanders worse Some chiefs whom most her haughtiness had galled Vent… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Slanders worse Some chiefs whom most her haughtiness had galled Ventured, vain-glorious. Who acts: Slanders. 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 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 14, sentence 151

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Slanders worse Some chiefs whom most her haughtiness had galled Ventured, vain-glorious.

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**Who acts:** Slanders · **What happens:** worse, gall, venture · **To what, where:** chiefs, most

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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 (Slanders), 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:pg78491:14:153
# text = Slanders worse Some chiefs whom most her haughtiness had galled Ventured, vain-glorious.
1	Slanders	slander	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	worse	worse	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obj	_	_
6	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	10	nsubj	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	haughtiness	haughtiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	galled	gall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
11	Ventured	venture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **worse** | present | Slanders | some chiefs |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **gall** | past · perfect · passive |  | most |  |  |  | some chiefs *obj*; chief's haughtiness *nsubj:pass* | tree rules |
| 3 | **venture** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=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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