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title: Ah, surely never wife such scorn has known Unless the fault was firs… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah, surely never wife such scorn has known Unless the fault was first in part her own!’ Who acts: fault. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 4, 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 4, sentence 72

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Ah, surely never wife such scorn has known Unless the fault was first in part her own!’

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**Who acts:** fault · **What happens:** not know, be · **To what, where:** wife, part

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fault), 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:pg78491:4:73
# text = Ah, surely never wife such scorn has known Unless the fault was first in part her own!’
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
5	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	scorn	scorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	Unless	unless	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fault	fault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	advmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | present · perfect · passive |  | wife and such scorn |  |  |  | surely *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | the fault |  |  | part |  | first *property* | tree rules |

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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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