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title: Of treasons worse is none Than sorrow when thy country’s foe is dead! — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of treasons worse is none Than sorrow when thy country’s foe is dead! Who acts: treasons, foe. 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 23

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Of treasons worse is none Than sorrow when thy country’s foe is dead!

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**Who acts:** treasons, foe · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** Than sorrow

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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 (treasons, foe), 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:pg78491:14:25
# text = Of treasons worse is none Than sorrow when thy country’s foe is dead!
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	treasons	treason	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	worse	bad	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	acl:relcl	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
5	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Than	than	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
9	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | treasons | Than sorrow |  |  |  | none *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | thy country's foe |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | 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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