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title: The shadow of that royalty once mine Dwarfs you to pygmies by compar… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The shadow of that royalty once mine Dwarfs you to pygmies by comparison! Who acts: shadow. 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 63

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The shadow of that royalty once mine Dwarfs you to pygmies by comparison!

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**Who acts:** shadow · **What happens:** dwarf, shadow · **To what, where:** you, royalty

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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 (shadow), 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:pg78491:15:65
# text = The shadow of that royalty once mine Dwarfs you to pygmies by comparison!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shadow	shadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	royalty	royalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	8	advmod	_	_
7	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	Dwarfs	dwarf	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	pygmies	pygmy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	comparison	comparison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwarf** | present | the shadow of that royalty | you |  |  |  | to pygmies; by comparison; mine *nsubj*; once *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **shadow** |  |  | that royalty |  |  |  |  | nom shadow «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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