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title: _ These _Gesa_, or _Geisa_, often as trivial in character as they we… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: _ These _Gesa_, or _Geisa_, often as trivial in character as they were rigidly enforced, have a large place in the legends of the Irish pre-Christian times. Who acts: Geisa. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 16, with 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 57

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\_ These \_Gesa\_, or \_Geisa\_, often as trivial in character as they were rigidly enforced, have a large place in the legends of the Irish pre-Christian times.

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**Who acts:** Geisa · **What happens:** enforce, have · **To what, where:** characters, large place, legends, These

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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 (Geisa), 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:pg78491:16:58
# text = _ These _Gesa_, or _Geisa_, often as trivial in character as they were rigidly enforced, have a large place in the legends of the Irish pre-Christian times.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	_
2	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
3	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Gesa	Gesa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Geisa	Geisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	often	often	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	trivial	trivial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	rigidly	rigidly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	enforced	enforce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
23	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
32	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
33	pre-Christian	pre-christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enforce** | past · passive |  | characters *= character* |  |  |  | rigidly *property* | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | present | Geisa | a large place |  | the legends of the Irish pre-Christian times |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=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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