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title: • p. 164: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “this Isl… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: • p. 164: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “this Island should be theirs!” 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 163

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• p. 164: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “this Island should be theirs!”

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**What happens:** add, close, be · **To what, where:** •, single quotation mark, marks · **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: 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:pg78491:16:166
# text = • p. 164: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “this Island should be theirs!”
1	•	•	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	164	164	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	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	cop	_	_
17	theirs	their	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	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: 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 | **is a** *in a quote* | should |  | marks *= mark* |  |  |  |  | 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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