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title: In the ‘Tain’ many passages, besides those which can be called poeti… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the ‘Tain’ many passages, besides those which can be called poetical, thus hold their own, apparently but because the trouble of altering them was thus evaded. Who acts: many passages, trouble. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 30

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In the ‘Tain’ many passages, besides those which can be called poetical, thus hold their own, apparently but because the trouble of altering them was thus evaded.

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**Who acts:** many passages, trouble · **What happens:** call, hold, alter, evade · **To what, where:** own, passages, trouble, many passages · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (many passages, trouble), 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:pg78491:2:30
# text = In the ‘Tain’ many passages, besides those which can be called poetical, thus hold their own, apparently but because the trouble of altering them was thus evaded.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	Tain	tain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	passages	passage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
9	besides	besides	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	poetical	poetical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
17	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl:relcl	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	apparently	apparently	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
23	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
24	because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	altering	alter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux:pass	_	_
31	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
32	evaded	evade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | can · passive |  |  |  |  |  | which *nsubj:pass*; poetical *property* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **hold** | infinitive | many passages in the Tain | passages's own |  |  |  | apparently, thus *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent own=Theme |
| 3 | **alter** | gerund | the trouble *not said here* | passages *= passage* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
| 4 | **evade** | past · passive |  | the trouble |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: subject=Location |

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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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