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title: Strong albeit The immortal steeds staggered. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Strong albeit The immortal steeds staggered. Who acts: immortal steeds. 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 239

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Strong albeit The immortal steeds staggered.

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**Who acts:** immortal steeds · **What happens:** stagger

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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 (immortal steeds), 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:pg78491:15:241
# text = Strong albeit The immortal steeds staggered.
1	Strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	albeit	albeit	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	immortal	immortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	staggered	stagger	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stagger** | past | the immortal steeds |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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