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title: Finola was the eldest, eight years old: The yearling, Conn, best lov… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Finola was the eldest, eight years old: The yearling, Conn, best loved of all that fold. Who acts: Finola. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 8, 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 8, sentence 19

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Finola was the eldest, eight years old: The yearling, Conn, best loved of all that fold.

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**Who acts:** Finola · **What happens:** be, love · **To what, where:** yearling

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Finola), 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:pg78491:8:19
# text = Finola was the eldest, eight years old: The yearling, Conn, best loved of all that fold.
1	Finola	Finola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	eldest	eld	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	yearling	yearling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Conn	Conn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	16	advmod	_	_
16	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
19	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	fold	fold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Finola |  |  |  |  | eld *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **love** | participle |  | the yearling *not said here* |  |  |  | of all fold | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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