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title: A Druid denounces the late war as unrighteous, while Fergus contemns… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: A Druid denounces the late war as unrighteous, while Fergus contemns it as ineffectual; and immediately afterwards the Mor Reega manifests herself to the host. Who acts: Druid, Fergus, Mor Reega. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, O
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 5

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A Druid denounces the late war as unrighteous, while Fergus contemns it as ineffectual; and immediately afterwards the Mor Reega manifests herself to the host.

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**Who acts:** Druid, Fergus, Mor Reega · **What happens:** denounce, contemn, manifest · **To what, where:** late war, war, Reega, host

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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 (Druid, Fergus, Mor Reega), 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:pg78491:15:7
# text = A Druid denounces the late war as unrighteous, while Fergus contemns it as ineffectual; and immediately afterwards the Mor Reega manifests herself to the host.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Druid	druid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	denounces	denounce	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	unrighteous	unrighteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
12	contemns	contemn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	ineffectual	ineffectual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
18	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Mor	Mor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Reega	Reega	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	manifests	manifest	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	23	obj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **denounce** | present | a Druid | the late war |  |  |  | as unrighteous | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent war=Theme as unrighteous=Attribute |
| 2 | **contemn** | present | Fergus | war |  |  |  | as ineffectual | tree rules |
| 3 | **manifest** | present | the Mor Reega | Reega | the host |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=Theme to host=Recipient |

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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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