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title: Landor’s ‘Hellenics’ represent many of the least known Greek legends… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Landor’s ‘Hellenics’ represent many of the least known Greek legends, and his ‘Gebir’ might be taken for a recovered Greek ‘lesser epic;’ but with such poems the Irish legends can boast little affinity. Who acts: Hellenics, Irish legends. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 26

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Landor’s ‘Hellenics’ represent many of the least known Greek legends, and his ‘Gebir’ might be taken for a recovered Greek ‘lesser epic;’ but with such poems the Irish legends can boast little affinity.

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**Who acts:** Hellenics, Irish legends · **What happens:** represent, know, take, recover, boast · **To what, where:** many, Gebir, little affinity

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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 (Hellenics, Irish legends), 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:pg78491:2:26
# text = Landor’s ‘Hellenics’ represent many of the least known Greek legends, and his ‘Gebir’ might be taken for a recovered Greek ‘lesser epic;’ but with such poems the Irish legends can boast little affinity.
1	Landor	Landor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’s	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Hellenics	hellenic	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	represent	represent	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	advmod	_	_
11	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
12	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Gebir	Gebir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	recovered	recover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	Greek	Greek	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	lesser	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	26	amod	_	_
29	epic	epic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	40	punct	_	_
32	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	poems	poem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nsubj	_	_
39	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	boast	boast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	_
41	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	affinity	affinity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **represent** | present | Landor's Hellenics | many of the known Greek legends |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot many=Theme |
| 2 | **know** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **take** | might · passive |  | legend's Gebir |  |  |  | for a recovered Greek | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for greek=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **recover** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **boast** *speech: other* | can | the Irish legends | little affinity |  |  |  | with such poems | 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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