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title: Apparently some bard of a later day resolved that these children of… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Apparently some bard of a later day resolved that these children of an unblessed stock should be a prophetic anticipation of the Gael whose boast was his faith. Who acts: bard, children, boast, faith. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Ve
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 7

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Apparently some bard of a later day resolved that these children of an unblessed stock should be a prophetic anticipation of the Gael whose boast was his faith.

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**Who acts:** bard, children, boast, faith · **What happens:** resolve, unbless, be, boast · **To what, where:** prophetic anticipation, faith

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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, children, boast, faith), 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:pg78491:2:7
# text = Apparently some bard of a later day resolved that these children of an unblessed stock should be a prophetic anticipation of the Gael whose boast was his faith.
1	Apparently	apparently	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	det	_	_
3	bard	bard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	later	late	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
10	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
11	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	unblessed	unbless	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	stock	stock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	prophetic	prophetic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	anticipation	anticipation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	ccomp	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Gael	Gael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
24	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	boast	boast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resolve** | past | some bard of a later day |  |  |  |  | apparently *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **unbless** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | should | this children of a unblessed stock | a prophetic anticipation |  |  |  | of the Gael | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Gael's faith's boast | Gael's faith |  |  |  | Gael *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 5 | **boast** |  | Gael's faith |  |  |  |  |  | nom boast «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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