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title: That portent seen alone in fateful times, The dread Mor Reega! — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: That portent seen alone in fateful times, The dread Mor Reega! 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 75

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That portent seen alone in fateful times, The dread Mor Reega!

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**What happens:** see · **To what, where:** portent

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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: 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:pg78491:15:77
# text = That portent seen alone in fateful times, The dread Mor Reega!
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	portent	portent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	fateful	fateful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	dread	dread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	Mor	Mor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
12	Reega	Reega	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | participle |  | that portent and the dread *not said here* |  |  | time | alone *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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