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title: O’er Taillten’s field God held the scales of Fate: That last dread b… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: O’er Taillten’s field God held the scales of Fate: That last dread battle closed the dire debate. Who acts: field, dread battle. 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 ever
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 4

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O’er Taillten’s field God held the scales of Fate: That last dread battle closed the dire debate.

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**Who acts:** field, dread battle · **What happens:** hold, close · **To what, where:** scales, dire debate

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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 (field, dread battle), 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:pg78491:8:4
# text = O’er Taillten’s field God held the scales of Fate: That last dread battle closed the dire debate.
1	O’er	O'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Taillten	Taillten	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
4	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	scales	scale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
13	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	dread	dread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	closed	close	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	dire	dire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	debate	debate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hold** | past | O’er's field | the scales of Fate |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scale=Theme |
| 2 | **close** | past | that dread battle | the dire debate |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent debate=Patient |

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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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