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title: They had great joy in these of old: below Lack them they shall not,… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: They had great joy in these of old: below Lack them they shall not, though they meet no foe. Who acts: men. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 7, 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 7, sentence 79

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They had great joy in these of old: below Lack them they shall not, though they meet no foe.

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** have, meet · **To what, where:** great joy, these, foe

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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 (men), 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:pg78491:7:79
# text = They had great joy in these of old: below Lack them they shall not, though they meet no foe.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	below	below	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Lack	Lack	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	nmod	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | men *= man* | great joy |  | these of old |  | below Lack  Ofttimes | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent joy=Patient |
| 2 | **meet** | present | men *= man* | no foe |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foe=Co-Agent |

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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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