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title: There fell those three Tuatha queens who gave The land their names--… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: There fell those three Tuatha queens who gave The land their names--they fell by death discrowned:[17] There many a Gaelic chieftain found his grave: Thenceforth the races twain adjusted bound And right, at times by league, at times by war; Nor any reigned as yet from shore to shore. Who acts: three
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 5

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There fell those three Tuatha queens who gave The land their names--they fell by death discrowned:\[17\] There many a Gaelic chieftain found his grave: Thenceforth the races twain adjusted bound And right, at times by league, at times by war; Nor any reigned as yet from shore to shore.

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**Who acts:** three Tuatha queens, names, death, many, Nor, queens · **What happens:** fall, give, discrown, find, adjust, reign · **To what, where:** three Tuatha queens, land, 17, shore

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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 (three Tuatha queens, names, death, many), 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:pg78491:8:5
# text = There fell those three Tuatha queens who gave The land their names--they fell by death discrowned:[17] There many a Gaelic chieftain found his grave: Thenceforth the races twain adjusted bound And right, at times by league, at times by war; Nor any reigned as yet from shore to shore.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
4	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
5	Tuatha	Tuatha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	queens	queen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	discrowned	discrown	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	17	17	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	21	punct	_	_
23	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	28	expl	_	_
24	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	nsubj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	chieftain	chieftain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
32	Thenceforth	thenceforth	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	compound	_	_
35	twain	twain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
36	adjusted	adjust	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	amod	_	_
37	bound	bound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
38	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl:unmarked	_	_
43	by	by	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	league	league	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	at	at	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
48	by	by	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
51	Nor	Nor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	nsubj	_	_
52	any	any	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	reigned	reign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
54	as	as	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	53	obl	_	_
56	from	from	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
58	to	to	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past |  | that three Tuatha queens |  | there |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient queen=Result |
| 2 | **give** | past | that three Tuatha queens | the land |  |  |  | queens's names *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent land=Recipient name=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | past | names *= name* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **discrown** | past | death |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **find** | past | many | 17 |  | there | time | a Gaelic chieftain *nsubj*; chieftain's grave *obj*; the races twain at times by league and adjusted bound *obj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent grave=Theme twain=Attribute |
| 6 | **adjust** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **reign** | past | Nor |  |  | shore to shore |  | any *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **name** |  | queens *= queen* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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