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title: To this island properly belongs the legend illustrated by Calderon i… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: To this island properly belongs the legend illustrated by Calderon in his ‘Purgatory of St. Patrick,’ so admirably presented to the English reader by my lamented friend, the late Denis Florence MacCarthy. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey D
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 127

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To this island properly belongs the legend illustrated by Calderon in his ‘Purgatory of St. Patrick,’ so admirably presented to the English reader by my lamented friend, the late Denis Florence MacCarthy.

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**What happens:** belong, illustrate, present, lament · **To what, where:** legend, Purgatory, English reader

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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:pg78491:16:129
# text = To this island properly belongs the legend illustrated by Calderon in his ‘Purgatory of St. Patrick,’ so admirably presented to the English reader by my lamented friend, the late Denis Florence MacCarthy.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	properly	properly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	illustrated	illustrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Calderon	Calderon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Purgatory	purgatory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	St.	St.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	admirably	admirably	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	presented	present	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	reader	reader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	lamented	lament	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
33	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
34	Denis	Denis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Florence	Florence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	MacCarthy	MacCarthy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **belong** | present |  | the legend |  |  |  | to this island; properly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **illustrate** | participle |  | the legend *not said here* |  | Calderon's Purgatory of St. |  | by Calderon | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **present** | participle |  |  | the English reader |  |  | by my lamented friend; admirably *property* | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to reader=Recipient |
| 4 | **lament** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: 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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