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title: That brazen cirque, not less Where stood his javelins ranged was nev… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: That brazen cirque, not less Where stood his javelins ranged was never void; Work of some God! Who acts: javelins, brazen cirque, God. 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 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 260

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That brazen cirque, not less Where stood his javelins ranged was never void; Work of some God!

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**Who acts:** javelins, brazen cirque, God · **What happens:** stand, range, not be, work

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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 (javelins, brazen cirque, God), 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:pg78491:15:262
# text = That brazen cirque, not less Where stood his javelins ranged was never void; Work of some God!
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	brazen	brazen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cirque	cirque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
7	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	javelins	javelin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	ranged	range	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	void	void	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past |  |  |  |  |  | less *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **range** | past | voice's javelins |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **is** | past | that brazen cirque |  |  |  |  | Work of some God *obl*; void *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **work** |  | some God |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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