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title: Between the Irish and such Scandinavian legends as the celebrated ‘S… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Between the Irish and such Scandinavian legends as the celebrated ‘Story of the Volsungs and Niblings’ there is one striking resemblance. Who acts: one striking resemblance. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 2, with i
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 28

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Between the Irish and such Scandinavian legends as the celebrated ‘Story of the Volsungs and Niblings’ there is one striking resemblance.

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**Who acts:** one striking resemblance · **What happens:** celebrate, be, strike · **To what, where:** Irish Scandinavian legends

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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 (one striking resemblance), 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:pg78491:2:28
# text = Between the Irish and such Scandinavian legends as the celebrated ‘Story of the Volsungs and Niblings’ there is one striking resemblance.
1	Between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
3	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	Scandinavian	scandinavian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Story	Story	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Volsungs	volsung	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Niblings	nibling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	amod	_	_
23	resemblance	resemblance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **celebrate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **be** | present | one striking resemblance |  |  | the Irish Scandinavian legends as the celebrated Story of the Volsungs and Niblings; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between legend=Location |
| 3 | **strike** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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