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title: So thus those babes, in God’s predestined hour, Through help of Him,… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: So thus those babes, in God’s predestined hour, Through help of Him, the Lord of Life and Death, Inly fulfilled with light and prophet power, Believed; and perfect made their Act of Faith; And thenceforth all things, both in shade and shine, To them came softly and with touch benign. Who acts: perfe
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 21

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So thus those babes, in God’s predestined hour, Through help of Him, the Lord of Life and Death, Inly fulfilled with light and prophet power, Believed; and perfect made their Act of Faith; And thenceforth all things, both in shade and shine, To them came softly and with touch benign.

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**Who acts:** perfect, babes · **What happens:** predestine, fulfil, believe, make, come, help · **To what, where:** babes, light, Act, God

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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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (perfect, babes), 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:pg78491:10:21
# text = So thus those babes, in God’s predestined hour, Through help of Him, the Lord of Life and Death, Inly fulfilled with light and prophet power, Believed; and perfect made their Act of Faith; And thenceforth all things, both in shade and shine, To them came softly and with touch benign.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	babes	babe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	predestined	predestine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Life	Life	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Death	Death	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	Inly	inly	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Believed	believe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	nsubj	_	_
36	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
37	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	Act	Act	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Faith	Faith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
42	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	thenceforth	thenceforth	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
44	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	45	det	_	_
45	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc:preconj	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	shade	shade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	appos	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	shine	shine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	To	to	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	_
55	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
56	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
58	with	with	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	touch	touch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	_
60	benign	benign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	55	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **predestine** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fulfil** | participle |  | that babes and God's predestined hour and help of God *not said here* |  |  |  | with light and prophet power; inly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **believe** | participle |  | light and prophet power *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **make** | past | perfect | babes's Act of Faith | babes *= babe* |  |  | all things *obl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset act=Product |
| 5 | **come** | past | that babes and God's predestined hour and help of God |  |  |  |  | softly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **help** |  |  | God |  |  |  |  | nom help «act transitive»: of=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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