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title: A sacred site profaned, Inviolate till this day!’ — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: A sacred site profaned, Inviolate till this day!’ Who acts: sacred site. 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 31

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A sacred site profaned, Inviolate till this day!’

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**Who acts:** sacred site · **What happens:** profane · **To what, where:** Inviolate

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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 (sacred site), 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:pg78491:15:33
# text = A sacred site profaned, Inviolate till this day!’
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	site	site	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	profaned	profane	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Inviolate	Inviolate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	till	till	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **profane** | past | a sacred site | Inviolate |  |  | day |  | 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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