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title: That hour when I was born I should have died: The ill-omened Infant… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: That hour when I was born I should have died: The ill-omened Infant was the ill-omened Bride!’ Who acts: I, hour. 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 82

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That hour when I was born I should have died: The ill-omened Infant was the ill-omened Bride!’

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**Who acts:** I, hour · **What happens:** bear, die, omen, be · **To what, where:** I, omened Bride

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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 (I, hour), 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:pg78491:7:82
# text = That hour when I was born I should have died: The ill-omened Infant was the ill-omened Bride!’
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl:relcl	_	_
7	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux	_	_
10	died	die	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
13	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	omened	omen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	Infant	infant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	omened	omen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	Bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **die** | should · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **omen** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **omen** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | past | that hour | the omened Bride |  |  |  | the omened Infant *nsubj* | 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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