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title: Through all its changes the traditional legend claimed a foundation… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Through all its changes the traditional legend claimed a foundation of truth, and pointed ever to some unmeasured antiquity. Who acts: traditional legend. 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 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 39

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Through all its changes the traditional legend claimed a foundation of truth, and pointed ever to some unmeasured antiquity.

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**Who acts:** traditional legend · **What happens:** change, claim, point · **To what, where:** foundation, unmeasured antiquity

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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 (traditional legend), 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:pg78491:2:39
# text = Through all its changes the traditional legend claimed a foundation of truth, and pointed ever to some unmeasured antiquity.
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	traditional	traditional	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	claimed	claim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	foundation	foundation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	pointed	point	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
19	unmeasured	unmeasured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	antiquity	antiquity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | present |  |  |  |  |  | maker *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **claim** *speech: other* | past | the traditional legend | a foundation of truth |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent foundation=Topic |
| 3 | **point** | past | the traditional legend *not said here* |  | some unmeasured antiquity |  | ever |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to antiquity=Recipient |

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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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