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title: Behold, the place of pleasaunce is forlorn, And emptied of fair wome… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Behold, the place of pleasaunce is forlorn, And emptied of fair women and brave men; The wine-cup now is dry; the music fled: Now know we that our father, Lir, is dead!’ Who acts: place, wine cup, music, father. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by A
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 37

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Behold, the place of pleasaunce is forlorn, And emptied of fair women and brave men; The wine-cup now is dry; the music fled: Now know we that our father, Lir, is dead!’

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**Who acts:** place, wine cup, music, father · **What happens:** be, empty, flee, know · **To what, where:** we

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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 (place, wine cup, music, father), 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:pg78491:10:37
# text = Behold, the place of pleasaunce is forlorn, And emptied of fair women and brave men; The wine-cup now is dry; the music fled: Now know we that our father, Lir, is dead!’
1	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	pleasaunce	pleasaunce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	forlorn	forlorn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	emptied	empty	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
19	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
20	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	25	advmod	_	_
24	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
31	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
32	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	ccomp	_	_
33	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
35	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	Lir	Lir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
40	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
41	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the place of pleasaunce |  |  |  |  | forlorn *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **empty** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of fair women and brave men | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Theme of woman=Source |
| 3 | **is** | present | the wine cup |  |  |  | now | dry *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **flee** | past | the music |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **know** | infinitive | the music *not said here* | we |  |  | now |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus |
| 6 | **is** | present | our father |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | 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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