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title: It was subsequently used for the same purpose during many centuries… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: It was subsequently used for the same purpose during many centuries in Scotland, to which it had been brought by the Dalriad Irish recorded by Bede, at the coronation of her Kings of Irish race. Who acts: Irish coronation. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroi
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 72

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It was subsequently used for the same purpose during many centuries in Scotland, to which it had been brought by the Dalriad Irish recorded by Bede, at the coronation of her Kings of Irish race.

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**Who acts:** Irish coronation · **What happens:** use, bring, record, coronate · **To what, where:** Scoti, Kings

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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 (Irish coronation), 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:pg78491:16:73
# text = It was subsequently used for the same purpose during many centuries in Scotland, to which it had been brought by the Dalriad Irish recorded by Bede, at the coronation of her Kings of Irish race.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
3	subsequently	subsequently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	used	use	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	during	during	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Scotland	Scotland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
23	Dalriad	Dalriad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
24	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
25	recorded	record	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	parataxis	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Bede	Bede	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	coronation	coronation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	Kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **use** | past · passive |  | Scoti |  |  | century | for the same purpose; subsequently *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for purpose=Eventuality |
| 2 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive | the Irish coronation  Dalriad of Dalriad's Kings of Irish race | Scoti |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to which=Destination |
| 3 | **record** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by Bede | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **coronate** |  |  | Dalriad's Kings of Irish race |  |  |  |  | nom coronation «event 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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