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title: An eminent Irish scholar asserts that the ‘Tain bo Cuailgné is to Ir… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: An eminent Irish scholar asserts that the ‘Tain bo Cuailgné is to Irish history what the Argonautic expedition, and the Seven against Thebes, are to the Grecian.’ Who acts: eminent Irish scholar, Tain bo Cuailgné, Seven Thebes. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 25

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An eminent Irish scholar asserts that the ‘Tain bo Cuailgné is to Irish history what the Argonautic expedition, and the Seven against Thebes, are to the Grecian.’

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**Who acts:** eminent Irish scholar, Tain bo Cuailgné, Seven Thebes · **What happens:** assert, be

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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 (eminent Irish scholar, Tain bo Cuailgné, Seven Thebes), 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:pg78491:2:25
# text = An eminent Irish scholar asserts that the ‘Tain bo Cuailgné is to Irish history what the Argonautic expedition, and the Seven against Thebes, are to the Grecian.’
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	eminent	eminent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	scholar	scholar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	asserts	assert	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Tain	Tain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
10	bo	bo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Cuailgné	Cuailgné	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
16	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Argonautic	argonautic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	expedition	expedition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
23	Seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	against	against	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Thebes	thebe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Grecian	grecian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assert** | present | a eminent Irish scholar |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | present | Tain bo Cuailgné |  |  |  |  | to the Irish history; what  the Argonautic expedition *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the Seven Thebes |  |  |  |  | grecian *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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