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title: In those days Foreboding soon, like sorrow, passed away: Ailill next… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In those days Foreboding soon, like sorrow, passed away: Ailill next morning counselled; ‘Ere the night Cross we the Shenan. Who acts: days. 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 pragm
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 80

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In those days Foreboding soon, like sorrow, passed away: Ailill next morning counselled; ‘Ere the night Cross we the Shenan.

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**Who acts:** days · **What happens:** forebode, pass away, counsell · **To what, where:** sorrow

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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 (days), 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:pg78491:15:82
# text = In those days Foreboding soon, like sorrow, passed away: Ailill next morning counselled; ‘Ere the night Cross we the Shenan.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
4	Foreboding	forebode	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
5	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	like	like	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
13	Ailill	ailill	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
16	counselled	counsell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Ere	Ere	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Cross	Cross	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl:agent	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Shenan	Shenan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forebode** | gerund | that days *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like sorrow; soon *property* | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **pass away** | participle |  | sorrow *not said here* |  |  |  | away *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **counsell** | participle |  |  |  |  | day; morning | Ere night Cross *obl:agent* | 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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