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title: • p. 17: Added opening single quotation mark before phrase “Their si… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: • p. 17: Added opening single quotation mark before phrase “Their singing is the best all Uladh boasts” and at the start of the following stanza. Who acts: singing, Uladh, marks. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 16, 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 151

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• p. 17: Added opening single quotation mark before phrase “Their singing is the best all Uladh boasts” and at the start of the following stanza.

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**Who acts:** singing, Uladh, marks · **What happens:** add, open, be, boast, follow, sing · **To what, where:** •, single quotation mark, phrase, stanza · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (singing, Uladh, marks), 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:pg78491:16:154
# text = • p. 17: Added opening single quotation mark before phrase “Their singing is the best all Uladh boasts” and at the start of the following stanza.
1	•	•	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
6	opening	open	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
7	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	quotation	quotation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	mark	mark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	before	before	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	parataxis	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	boasts	boast	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	case	_	_
29	stanza	stanza	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | participle |  | • *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **open** | gerund |  | single quotation mark |  | phrase |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme before phrase=Location |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | marks's singing |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **boast** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | all Uladh |  |  |  |  | the start of the stanza *conj* | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **sing** *in a quote* |  | marks *= mark* |  |  |  |  |  | nom singing «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **start** |  |  | the stanza |  |  |  |  | nom start «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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