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title: Debate ere long, For chiefs there were who loved the nobler war, Pas… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Debate ere long, For chiefs there were who loved the nobler war, Passed on to raging storm. Who acts: Debate. 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 58

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Debate ere long, For chiefs there were who loved the nobler war, Passed on to raging storm.

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**Who acts:** Debate · **What happens:** love, pass on, rage · **To what, where:** nobler war, storm

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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 (Debate), 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:pg78491:14:60
# text = Debate ere long, For chiefs there were who loved the nobler war, Passed on to raging storm.
1	Debate	debate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
2	ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	For	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	nobler	noble	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	amod	_	_
13	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	raging	rage	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
19	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **love** | past | Debate and chiefs | the nobler war |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer war=Stimulus |
| 2 | **pass on** | participle | Debate and chiefs *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **rage** | gerund | Debate and chiefs *not said here* | storm |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location storm=Theme |

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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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