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title: We smile at the boundless admiration lavished on strength by all ear… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: We smile at the boundless admiration lavished on strength by all early races; nor shall we understand it aright while we suppose that it was, indeed, directed to mere physical qualities. Who acts: We. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Ve
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 84

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We smile at the boundless admiration lavished on strength by all early races; nor shall we understand it aright while we suppose that it was, indeed, directed to mere physical qualities.

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** smile, lavish, understand, suppose, be, direct · **To what, where:** boundless admiration, strength, physical qualities · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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:pg78491:1:88
# text = We smile at the boundless admiration lavished on strength by all early races; nor shall we understand it aright while we suppose that it was, indeed, directed to mere physical qualities.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	smile	smile	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	boundless	boundless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	lavished	lavish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
12	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	18	cc	_	_
16	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	aright	aright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	suppose	suppose	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
28	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	23	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	directed	direct	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	mere	mere	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	physical	physical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	qualities	quality	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smile** | present | We |  |  | the boundless admiration |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **lavish** | participle |  | the boundless admiration *not said here* |  | strength |  | by all early races | tree rules |
| 3 | **understand** | shall | we | strength |  |  |  | aright *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 4 | **suppose** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **direct** | participle | we *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **mere** | infinitive | we *not said here* | physical qualities |  |  |  |  | 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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