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title: As regards comparative antiquity the ‘Tain’ must have preceded the N… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: As regards comparative antiquity the ‘Tain’ must have preceded the Northern work by at least six centuries. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 32

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As regards comparative antiquity the ‘Tain’ must have preceded the Northern work by at least six centuries.

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**What happens:** precede · **To what, where:** Tain

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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: 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:pg78491:2:32
# text = As regards comparative antiquity the ‘Tain’ must have preceded the Northern work by at least six centuries.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	regards	regards	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	11	obl	_	_
3	comparative	comparative	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	antiquity	antiquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Tain	tain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
9	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	aux	_	_
11	preceded	precede	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	nmod	_	_
18	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **precede** | must · perfect · passive |  | the Tain |  |  | century | as regards and comparative antiquity; the Northern work *obj* | 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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