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title: Not less a battle waits thee great and dread ’Twixt Gairig and Ilgai… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Not less a battle waits thee great and dread ’Twixt Gairig and Ilgairig.’ Who acts: battle. 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 158

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Not less a battle waits thee great and dread ’Twixt Gairig and Ilgairig.’

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**Who acts:** battle · **What happens:** wait, dread · **To what, where:** thee, Twixt Gairig

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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 (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:pg78491:14:160
# text = Not less a battle waits thee great and dread ’Twixt Gairig and Ilgairig.’
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	waits	wait	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	obj	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	dread	dread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
10	’	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Twixt	Twixt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Gairig	Gairig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Ilgairig	Ilgairig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | present | a battle | thee |  |  |  | great, less *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dread** | present | a battle *not said here* | Twixt Gairig and Ilgairig |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gairig=Stimulus |

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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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