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title: • p. 69: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “A woman’s… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: • p. 69: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “A woman’s hand one day shall strike him dead!” Who acts: hand. 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 clau
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 153

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• p. 69: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “A woman’s hand one day shall strike him dead!”

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**Who acts:** hand · **What happens:** add, close, strike · **To what, where:** •, single quotation mark · **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 (hand), 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:pg78491:16:156
# text = • p. 69: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “A woman’s hand one day shall strike him dead!”
1	•	•	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	69	69	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	closing	close	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	after	after	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	_
19	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	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 | **close** | gerund |  | single quotation mark |  |  | after phrase |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Patient |
| 3 | **strike** *in a quote* | shall | a woman's hand *not said here* | • |  |  | day | dead *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument |

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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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