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title: In each case the earliest existing prose version obviously represent… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In each case the earliest existing prose version obviously represents a metrical work earlier still, large fragments of which survive, cropping up in it like sea rocks that indicate the hills submerged. Who acts: existing prose version, large fragments, sea rocks. A sentence of «The foray of Queen M
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 29

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In each case the earliest existing prose version obviously represents a metrical work earlier still, large fragments of which survive, cropping up in it like sea rocks that indicate the hills submerged.

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**Who acts:** existing prose version, large fragments, sea rocks · **What happens:** exist, represent, survive, crop up, indicate, submerge · **To what, where:** metrical work, version, hills

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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 (existing prose version, large fragments, sea rocks), 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:pg78491:2:29
# text = In each case the earliest existing prose version obviously represents a metrical work earlier still, large fragments of which survive, cropping up in it like sea rocks that indicate the hills submerged.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	advmod	_	_
6	existing	exist	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
7	prose	prose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	version	version	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	obviously	obviously	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	represents	represent	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	metrical	metrical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	earlier	early	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	15	advmod	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	fragments	fragment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	survive	survive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	cropping	crop	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
24	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	_
27	like	like	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
30	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	indicate	indicate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
34	submerged	submerge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exist** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **represent** | present | the existing prose version | a metrical work and large fragments |  |  |  | in each case; obviously *property* | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot work=Theme in case=Attribute |
| 3 | **survive** | present | large fragments |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **crop up** | gerund | large fragments *not said here* |  |  | version |  | like sea rocks | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **indicate** | present | sea rocks | the hills |  |  |  |  | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hill=Topic |
| 6 | **submerge** | participle |  | the hills *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |

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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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