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title: The Irish, originally ‘Scoti,’ were so called from Scota. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Irish, originally ‘Scoti,’ were so called from Scota. 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 49

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The Irish, originally ‘Scoti,’ were so called from Scota.

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**What happens:** call · **To what, where:** Irish Scoti, Scota · **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:pg78491:16:50
# text = The Irish, originally ‘Scoti,’ were so called from Scota.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
2	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	originally	originally	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	Scoti	Scoti	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	so	so	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Scota	Scota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past · passive |  | the Irish Scoti |  | Scota |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from scota=Source |

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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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