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title: _Deirdré and he were playing chess together_: Chess was a favourite… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: _Deirdré and he were playing chess together_: Chess was a favourite game with the Irish, and is frequently alluded to in the earliest tales. Who acts: Deirdré, Chess. 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 dep
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 66

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\_Deirdré and he were playing chess together\_: Chess was a favourite game with the Irish, and is frequently alluded to in the earliest tales.

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**Who acts:** Deirdré, Chess · **What happens:** play, be, allude · **To what, where:** chess, favourite game, Deirdré

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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 (Deirdré, Chess), 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:pg78491:16:67
# text = _Deirdré and he were playing chess together_: Chess was a favourite game with the Irish, and is frequently alluded to in the earliest tales.
1	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Deirdré	Deirdré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	playing	play	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
7	chess	chess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	together	together	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	Chess	Chess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
16	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
22	frequently	frequently	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	alluded	allude	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
28	tales	tale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **play** | past · progressive | Deirdré | chess |  |  |  | together *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chess=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Chess | a favourite game |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **allude** | present · passive | Chess *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the earliest tales; frequently *property* | 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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