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title: There are some errors and inconsistencies in the rendering of single… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: There are some errors and inconsistencies in the rendering of single and double quotation marks in nested dialogue, especially in the long narration by Fergus starting on page 138. Who acts: errors, long narration, Fergus. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroi
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 145

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There are some errors and inconsistencies in the rendering of single and double quotation marks in nested dialogue, especially in the long narration by Fergus starting on page 138.

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**Who acts:** errors, long narration, Fergus · **What happens:** be, nest, start, render, narrate · **To what, where:** page, single quotation marks

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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 (errors, long narration, Fergus), 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:pg78491:16:148
# text = There are some errors and inconsistencies in the rendering of single and double quotation marks in nested dialogue, especially in the long narration by Fergus starting on page 138.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	errors	error	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	inconsistencies	inconsistency	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	rendering	rendering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	double	double	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	quotation	quotation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	nested	nest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	dialogue	dialogue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	narration	narration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	starting	start	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	acl	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	138	138	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | some errors in the rendering of single quotation marks in nested dialogue and inconsistencies |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **nest** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **start** | gerund | the long narration by Fergus *not said here* |  |  | page |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **render** |  |  | single quotation marks in nested dialogue |  |  |  |  | nom rendering «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **narrate** |  | Fergus |  |  |  |  |  | nom narration «communication transitive»: by=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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