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title: A narrative, at first but the record of some dreadful crime in a hea… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: A narrative, at first but the record of some dreadful crime in a heathen household, changed by degrees into a mystic hymn on the sanctity of childhood, its capacity for the heavenly hope, its obedience, endurance, and fidelity, its power through entire simplicity to find, in the strangest affliction
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 3

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A narrative, at first but the record of some dreadful crime in a heathen household, changed by degrees into a mystic hymn on the sanctity of childhood, its capacity for the heavenly hope, its obedience, endurance, and fidelity, its power through entire simplicity to find, in the strangest affliction, purification only and a whiter innocence.

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**Who acts:** capacity · **What happens:** change, find, record, obey · **To what, where:** heathen household, mystic hymn, strangest affliction, narrative, dreadful crime

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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 (capacity), 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:pg78491:2:3
# text = A narrative, at first but the record of some dreadful crime in a heathen household, changed by degrees into a mystic hymn on the sanctity of childhood, its capacity for the heavenly hope, its obedience, endurance, and fidelity, its power through entire simplicity to find, in the strangest affliction, purification only and a whiter innocence.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	narrative	narrative	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
11	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	crime	crime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	heathen	heathen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
21	into	into	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	mystic	mystic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	hymn	hymn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	sanctity	sanctity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	capacity	capacity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
33	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	heavenly	heavenly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	obedience	obedience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	endurance	endurance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	fidelity	fidelity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
48	through	through	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	simplicity	simplicity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	47	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	in	in	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
56	strangest	strange	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	57	amod	_	_
57	affliction	affliction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
59	purification	purification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	conj	_	_
60	only	only	ADV	RB	_	59	advmod	_	_
61	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
62	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
63	whiter	white	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	64	amod	_	_
64	innocence	innocence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | participle |  | a heathen household *not said here* |  |  |  | into a mystic hymn on the sanctity of childhood and childhood's capacity for the heavenly hope and capacity's obedience and endurance and fidelity *result*; by degrees | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into hymn=Result |
| 2 | **find** | to-infinitive |  | the strangest affliction and purification and a whiter innocence |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affliction=Topic |
| 4 | **record** |  |  | some dreadful crime in a heathen household |  |  |  |  | nom record «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **obey** |  | capacity |  |  |  |  |  | nom obedience «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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