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title: So one was faithful, yet of greatness shorn: And one was greatness p… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: So one was faithful, yet of greatness shorn: And one was greatness perjured and forsworn. Who acts: one, one greatness. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 6, 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 6, sentence 31

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So one was faithful, yet of greatness shorn: And one was greatness perjured and forsworn.

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**Who acts:** one, one greatness · **What happens:** be, perjure, forswear · **To what, where:** one greatness

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, one greatness), 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:pg78491:6:32
# text = So one was faithful, yet of greatness shorn: And one was greatness perjured and forsworn.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	greatness	greatness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
9	shorn	shorn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	greatness	greatness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	perjured	perjure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	forsworn	forswear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | one |  |  |  |  | faithful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | one greatness |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **perjure** | participle | one greatness |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **forswear** | participle | one greatness *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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