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title: The agents in inflicting such retribution appear in the form of Fair… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The agents in inflicting such retribution appear in the form of Fairies.’ Who acts: agents. 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 61

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The agents in inflicting such retribution appear in the form of Fairies.’

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**Who acts:** agents · **What happens:** inflict, appear, form · **To what, where:** such retribution, form, Fairies

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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 (agents), 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:pg78491:16:62
# text = The agents in inflicting such retribution appear in the form of Fairies.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	agents	agent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	inflicting	inflict	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	retribution	retribution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	appear	appear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Fairies	fairy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **inflict** | gerund | the agents *not said here* | such retribution |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **appear** | present | the agents |  |  | the form of Fairies |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in form=Location |
| 3 | **form** |  |  | Fairies |  |  |  |  | nom form «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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