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title: Now all was changed; Ill choice; if chance, ill-omened. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now all was changed; Ill choice; if chance, ill-omened. 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 17

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Now all was changed; Ill choice; if chance, ill-omened.

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**What happens:** change, omen · **To what, where:** all, chance

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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: 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:pg78491:15:19
# text = Now all was changed; Ill choice; if chance, ill-omened.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	choice	choice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	omened	omen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past · passive |  | all |  |  | now | Ill choice *obl* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **omen** *a condition, not said to happen* | participle · passive |  | chance |  |  |  |  | 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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