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description: I trust that the poets of a later day will illustrate it more worthily, and do for Irish history what the lofty and stainless poetry of Scott did for that of his country. Who acts: I, poets, lofty poetry. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey D
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 45

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I trust that the poets of a later day will illustrate it more worthily, and do for Irish history what the lofty and stainless poetry of Scott did for that of his country.

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**Who acts:** I, poets, lofty poetry · **What happens:** trust, illustrate, do · **To what, where:** volume, Irish history

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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 (I, poets, lofty poetry), 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:pg78491:2:45
# text = I trust that the poets of a later day will illustrate it more worthily, and do for Irish history what the lofty and stainless poetry of Scott did for that of his country.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	trust	trust	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	poets	poet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	later	late	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	illustrate	illustrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	ccomp	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	worthily	worthily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	do	do	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Irish	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	29	obj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
23	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	stainless	stainless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Scott	Scott	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trust** | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **illustrate** | future | the poets of a later day | volume |  |  |  | worthily *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Destination |
| 3 | **do** | infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Irish history | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **do** | past | the lofty poetry of Scott | Irish history |  |  |  | for Irish history | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

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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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