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title: In ancient Ireland history and poetry had but a single Muse, and the… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 38

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In ancient Ireland history and poetry had but a single Muse, and the bard who professed to be ‘a maker’ would have found no listener.

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**Who acts:** bard · **What happens:** have, profess, be, find · **To what, where:** ancient Ireland history, maker, bard

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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 (bard), 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:pg78491:2:38
# text = In ancient Ireland history and poetry had but a single Muse, and the bard who professed to be ‘a maker’ would have found no listener.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Ireland	Ireland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Muse	muse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	bard	bard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	professed	profess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
20	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	maker	maker	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
24	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux	_	_
26	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	parataxis	_	_
27	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	28	det	_	_
28	listener	listener	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  |  |  | ancient Ireland history and poetry |  | a single Muse *conj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **profess** | past | the bard |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | to-infinitive | the bard *not said here* | a maker |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **find** | would · perfect · passive |  | the bard |  |  |  | no listener *obj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme listener=Attribute |

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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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