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title: Here Wrong holds court; but Justice reigneth there:-- King! — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 48

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Here Wrong holds court; but Justice reigneth there:-- King!

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**Who acts:** Justice · **What happens:** hold, reign · **To what, where:** court

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Justice), 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:pg78491:7:48
# text = Here Wrong holds court; but Justice reigneth there:-- King!
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	amod	_	_
3	holds	hold	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	Justice	Justice	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	reigneth	reign	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
9	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | present |  | court |  | here |  | King *parataxis* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Theme |
| 2 | **reign** | present | Justice |  |  | there |  |  | 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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