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title: The highest inspiration of the Bards seems to have passed away not l… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The highest inspiration of the Bards seems to have passed away not long after Ireland became Christian. Who acts: highest inspiration, Ireland. 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 pra
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 35

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The highest inspiration of the Bards seems to have passed away not long after Ireland became Christian.

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**Who acts:** highest inspiration, Ireland · **What happens:** seem, pass away, become, inspire · **To what, where:** Bards

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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 (highest inspiration, Ireland), 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:pg78491:2:35
# text = The highest inspiration of the Bards seems to have passed away not long after Ireland became Christian.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	inspiration	inspiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Bards	Bard	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	xcomp	_	_
11	away	away	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
13	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
14	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
17	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | present | the highest inspiration of the Bards |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **pass away** | to-infinitive · perfect | the highest inspiration of the Bards *not said here* |  |  |  |  | away, long *property* | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **become** | past | Ireland |  |  |  |  | Christian *xcomp* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **inspire** |  |  | the Bards |  |  |  |  | nom inspiration «cognition transitive»: of=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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