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title: • p. 28: Added opening single quotation mark before phrase “Lay firs… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: • p. 28: Added opening single quotation mark before phrase “Lay first that head, and march we hence this night!” Who acts: march. 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 ev
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 152

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• p. 28: Added opening single quotation mark before phrase “Lay first that head, and march we hence this night!”

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**Who acts:** march · **What happens:** add, open, night · **To what, where:** •, single quotation mark, phrase · **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 (march), 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:pg78491:16:155
# text = • p. 28: Added opening single quotation mark before phrase “Lay first that head, and march we hence this night!”
1	•	•	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	28	28	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	list	_	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	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Lay	Lay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	advmod	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	march	march	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	hence	hence	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: express* | participle |  | • *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **open** | gerund |  | single quotation mark |  | phrase |  | that head *obl* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme before phrase=Location |
| 3 | **night** *in a quote* |  | march |  |  |  |  | we *nsubj*; hence *property* | tree rules |

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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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