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title: ‘Then God must be a God who hides Himself In sport, or else for caus… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Then God must be a God who hides Himself In sport, or else for cause we know not of! Who acts: God, we. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 32

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‘Then God must be a God who hides Himself In sport, or else for cause we know not of!

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**Who acts:** God, we · **What happens:** be, hide, know · **To what, where:** God, Himself, sport

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, we), 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:pg78491:3:32
# text = ‘Then God must be a God who hides Himself In sport, or else for cause we know not of!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
3	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Himself	Himself	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	In	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
15	else	else	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	ccomp	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | must | God | a God |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hide** | present | a God | Himself |  | sport |  | who *nsubj* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in sport=Location |
| 3 | **know** | present | we |  |  |  |  | for cause; else *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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