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title: THE FORAY OF QUEEN MEAVE — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: THE FORAY OF QUEEN MEAVE Who acts: QUEEN. 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 90

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THE FORAY OF QUEEN MEAVE

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**Who acts:** QUEEN · **What happens:** foray · **To what, where:** FORAY

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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 (QUEEN), 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:pg78491:16:92
# text = THE FORAY OF QUEEN MEAVE
1	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	FORAY	foray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	QUEEN	QUEEN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	MEAVE	MEAVE	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **foray** |  | QUEEN |  |  |  |  |  | nom foray «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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