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title: It is remarkable that while numerous Firbolg monuments, and in some… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: It is remarkable that while numerous Firbolg monuments, and in some places the race itself, survive, the mediæval genealogies include no descent from the Tuatha de Dannan. Who acts: Aengus, race, mediæval genealogies. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 17

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It is remarkable that while numerous Firbolg monuments, and in some places the race itself, survive, the mediæval genealogies include no descent from the Tuatha de Dannan.

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**Who acts:** Aengus, race, mediæval genealogies · **What happens:** be, survive, include · **To what, where:** descent, Tuatha Dannan

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Aengus, race, mediæval genealogies), 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:pg78491:2:17
# text = It is remarkable that while numerous Firbolg monuments, and in some places the race itself, survive, the mediæval genealogies include no descent from the Tuatha de Dannan.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	remarkable	remarkable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Firbolg	Firbolg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	monuments	monument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	13	det	_	_
13	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
16	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	15	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	survive	survive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	mediæval	mediæval	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	genealogies	genealogy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	include	include	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
24	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	25	det	_	_
25	descent	descent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	Tuatha	Tuatha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
29	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	flat	_	_
30	Dannan	Dannan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Aengus |  |  |  |  | numerous Firbolg monuments and some places *advcl*; remarkable *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **survive** | infinitive | the race  Aengus *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **include** | present | the mediæval genealogies | no descent |  | the Tuatha Dannan |  |  | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent descent=Theme |

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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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