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title: TO WHOM ENGLISH AND IRISH READERS OWE, — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: TO WHOM ENGLISH AND IRISH READERS OWE, Who acts: ENGLISH. 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 96

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TO WHOM ENGLISH AND IRISH READERS OWE,

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**Who acts:** ENGLISH · **What happens:** owe

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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 (ENGLISH), 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:pg78491:7:98
# text = TO WHOM ENGLISH AND IRISH READERS OWE,
1	TO	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	WHOM	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	0	root	_	_
3	ENGLISH	ENGLISH	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	IRISH	Irish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	READERS	reader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
7	OWE	owe	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **owe** | present | ENGLISH and IRISH READERS |  |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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