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title: • p. 153: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “My stren… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: • p. 153: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “My strength must lessen day by day.” Who acts: strength. 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 161

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• p. 153: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “My strength must lessen day by day.”

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**Who acts:** strength · **What happens:** add, close, lessen · **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 (strength), 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:pg78491:16:164
# text = • p. 153: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “My strength must lessen day by day.”
1	•	•	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	153	153	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	9	nmod	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	lessen	lessen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
17	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	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 | **close** | gerund |  | single quotation mark |  |  | after phrase |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Patient |
| 3 | **lessen** *in a quote* | must | My strength |  |  |  | day |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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