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title: • p. 81: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “Their voi… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: • p. 81: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “Their voices too are voices of the Gael!” Who acts: voices. 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 156

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• p. 81: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “Their voices too are voices of the Gael!”

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**Who acts:** voices · **What happens:** add, close, be · **To what, where:** • p., single quotation mark, voices · **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 (voices), 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:pg78491:16:159
# text = • p. 81: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “Their voices too are voices of the Gael!”
1	•	•	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	81	81	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Added	add	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	closing	close	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
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	9	nmod	_	_
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	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
15	too	too	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Gael	Gael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	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 · passive |  | • p. |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **close** | gerund |  | single quotation mark |  |  | after phrase |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | marks's voices | voices |  |  |  | of the Gael | 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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