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title: Rose a chief Aulnau, the son of Magach, one whose pride Was not in w… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Rose a chief Aulnau, the son of Magach, one whose pride Was not in war-deeds but in crafty brain, And thus made answer. Who acts: one pride, war deeds. 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 39

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Rose a chief Aulnau, the son of Magach, one whose pride Was not in war-deeds but in crafty brain, And thus made answer.

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**Who acts:** one pride, war deeds · **What happens:** rise, not be, make, pride · **To what, where:** Aulnau, war deeds

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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 pride, war deeds), 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:pg78491:14:41
# text = Rose a chief Aulnau, the son of Magach, one whose pride Was not in war-deeds but in crafty brain, And thus made answer.
1	Rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod:desc	_	_
4	Aulnau	Aulnau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Magach	Magach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
12	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
14	Was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	appos	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	crafty	crafty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	amod	_	_
28	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rise** | past |  | a Aulnau  chief |  |  |  | made answer *conj* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past | war deeds but crafty brain's one pride |  |  | war deeds but crafty brain |  | crafty brain *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **pride** |  | war deeds but crafty brain |  |  |  |  |  | nom pride «feeling 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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