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title: This file uses _underscores_ to indicate italic text. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: This file uses _underscores_ to indicate italic text. Who acts: file. 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 140

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This file uses \_underscores\_ to indicate italic text.

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**Who acts:** file · **What happens:** use, indicate · **To what, where:** underscores, italic text

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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 (file), 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:pg78491:16:143
# text = This file uses _underscores_ to indicate italic text.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	file	file	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	uses	use	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	underscores	underscore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	5	punct	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	indicate	indicate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	italic	italic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | present | this file | underscores |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent underscore=Patient |
| 2 | **indicate** | to-infinitive | this file *not said here* | italic text |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot text=Topic |

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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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