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title: _ The fine exacted for various offences by the Brehon law. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: _ The fine exacted for various offences by the Brehon law. 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 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 16, sentence 106

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\_ The fine exacted for various offences by the Brehon law.

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**What happens:** exact · **To what, where:** fine

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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: 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:pg78491:16:108
# text = _ The fine exacted for various offences by the Brehon law.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	exacted	exact	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	offences	offence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Brehon	Brehon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exact** | participle |  | the fine |  |  |  | for various offences; by the Brehon law | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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