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title: So ends the _Tain_: Not less, in mirth or spleen, that legend old Pr… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: So ends the _Tain_: Not less, in mirth or spleen, that legend old Primeval battle-chaunt of Erin’s race, Adds yet a second close. Who acts: Primeval battle, Erin. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 16, with its depende
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 1

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So ends the \_Tain\_: Not less, in mirth or spleen, that legend old Primeval battle-chaunt of Erin’s race, Adds yet a second close.

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**Who acts:** Primeval battle, Erin · **What happens:** end, chaunt, race · **To what, where:** Tain

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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 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Primeval battle, Erin), 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:pg78491:16:1
# text = So ends the _Tain_: Not less, in mirth or spleen, that legend old Primeval battle-chaunt of Erin’s race, Adds yet a second close.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	ends	end	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Tain	Tain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	mirth	mirth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	spleen	spleen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
19	Primeval	primeval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	chaunt	chaunt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Adds	Adds	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	_
29	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	32	amod	_	_
32	close	close	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **end** | present |  | the Tain |  |  |  | mirth or spleen and that legend *parataxis*; less *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality tain=Eventuality |
| 2 | **chaunt** | infinitive | Primeval battle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Erin's race | tree rules |
| 3 | **race** |  | Erin |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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