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title: Queen Meave, having reached the sacred plain of Uta, sacrilegiously… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Queen Meave, having reached the sacred plain of Uta, sacrilegiously encamps thereon. Who acts: Queen, sacred plain. 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 4

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Queen Meave, having reached the sacred plain of Uta, sacrilegiously encamps thereon.

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**Who acts:** Queen, sacred plain · **What happens:** have, reach, encamp · **To what, where:** sacred plain

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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 (Queen, sacred plain), 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:pg78491:15:6
# text = Queen Meave, having reached the sacred plain of Uta, sacrilegiously encamps thereon.
1	Queen	Queen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
4	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	reparandum	_	_
5	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Uta	Uta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	sacrilegiously	sacrilegiously	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	encamps	encamp	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	thereon	thereon	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **reach** | past | Queen | the sacred plain of Uta |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent plain=Theme |
| 3 | **encamp** | present | the sacred plain of Uta *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sacrilegiously, thereon *property* | 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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