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title: And still, at evening’s close, They dreamed of those rich bowers and… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And still, at evening’s close, They dreamed of those rich bowers and alleys green Wherein with Lir their childish sports had been. Who acts: odours, childish sports. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 10, with its depe
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 25

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And still, at evening’s close, They dreamed of those rich bowers and alleys green Wherein with Lir their childish sports had been.

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**Who acts:** odours, childish sports · **What happens:** dream, be, sport · **To what, where:** close

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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 (odours, childish sports), 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:pg78491:10:25
# text = And still, at evening’s close, They dreamed of those rich bowers and alleys green Wherein with Lir their childish sports had been.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	close	close	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
13	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	bowers	bower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	alleys	alley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
18	Wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Lir	Lir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	childish	childish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	been	be	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dream** | past | odours *= odour* | evening's close *not said here* |  |  |  | of that rich bowers and alleys | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent close=Topic |
| 2 | **be** | past · perfect | odours's childish sports |  |  |  |  | with Lir; wherein *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sport** |  | odours *= odour* |  |  |  |  |  | nom sport «act intransitive»: 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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