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title: The Red Branch Knights Surpassed their old renown. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Red Branch Knights Surpassed their old renown. Who acts: Branch Knights. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15, 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 15, sentence 153

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The Red Branch Knights Surpassed their old renown.

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**Who acts:** Branch Knights · **What happens:** surpass · **To what, where:** old renown

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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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Branch Knights), 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:pg78491:15:155
# text = The Red Branch Knights Surpassed their old renown.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
3	Branch	Branch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Knights	Knight	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	Surpassed	surpass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	renown	renown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surpass** | past | the Branch Knights | Knights's old renown |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot renown=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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