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title: Through the great hall the acclaim unmeasured brake: It sank; and on… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Through the great hall the acclaim unmeasured brake: It sank; and once again King Conor spake; Who acts: acclaim. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 5, 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 5, sentence 16

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Through the great hall the acclaim unmeasured brake: It sank; and once again King Conor spake;

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**Who acts:** acclaim · **What happens:** sink · **To what, where:** unmeasured brake

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (acclaim), 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:pg78491:5:16
# text = Through the great hall the acclaim unmeasured brake: It sank; and once again King Conor spake;
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	acclaim	acclaim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	unmeasured	unmeasured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	brake	brake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	15	advmod	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	Conor	Conor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sink** | past | acclaim | unmeasured brake through the great hall  the acclaim and King spake *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent brake=Patient |

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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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