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title: The most remarkable illustrations of the _Gesa_ will be found in ‘Co… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The most remarkable illustrations of the _Gesa_ will be found in ‘Conary,’ the noble poem of my friend, Sir Samuel Ferguson, who speaks of them as ‘certain sacred injunctions, the violation of which was attended with temporal punishment. Who acts: Samuel. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 60

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The most remarkable illustrations of the \_Gesa\_ will be found in ‘Conary,’ the noble poem of my friend, Sir Samuel Ferguson, who speaks of them as ‘certain sacred injunctions, the violation of which was attended with temporal punishment.

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**Who acts:** Samuel · **What happens:** find, speak, attend, illustrate · **To what, where:** remarkable illustrations, Conary, Gesa · **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 (Samuel), 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:pg78491:16:61
# text = The most remarkable illustrations of the _Gesa_ will be found in ‘Conary,’ the noble poem of my friend, Sir Samuel Ferguson, who speaks of them as ‘certain sacred injunctions, the violation of which was attended with temporal punishment.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	illustrations	illustration	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	_	_	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	Gesa	Gesa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	4	punct	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Conary	Conary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	poem	poem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:desc	_	_
26	Samuel	Samuel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
27	Ferguson	Ferguson	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	speaks	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obl	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
36	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	injunctions	injunction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	violation	violation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	44	obl	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	aux:pass	_	_
44	attended	attend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	acl:relcl	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	temporal	temporal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | future · passive |  | the remarkable illustrations of the Gesa |  | Conary |  | the noble poem of my friend *obl* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | Samuel  Sir |  |  |  |  | of illustrations *= illustration*; as certain sacred injunctions | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **attend** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | of the violation; with temporal punishment | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: of which=Theme |
| 4 | **illustrate** |  |  | the Gesa |  |  |  |  | nom illustration «communication transitive»: of=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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