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title: Lords and Kings, Attend a legend from your annals old, A laughing pi… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lords and Kings, Attend a legend from your annals old, A laughing picture of man’s life this day. Who acts: Lords. 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 63

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Lords and Kings, Attend a legend from your annals old, A laughing picture of man’s life this day.

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**Who acts:** Lords · **What happens:** attend, laugh · **To what, where:** legend, old

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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 (Lords), 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:pg78491:14:65
# text = Lords and Kings, Attend a legend from your annals old, A laughing picture of man’s life this day.
1	Lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	Kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Attend	attend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	annals	annal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **attend** | infinitive | Lords and Kings | a legend |  | old  your annals |  | a laughing picture of man's life  this day *parataxis* | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme legend=Goal |
| 2 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: 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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