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title: Yet still along that silver mere they lingered Oaring their weeping… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet still along that silver mere they lingered Oaring their weeping way by lawn and cape, Till evening, purple-stoled and dewy-fingered, O’er heaven’s sweet face had woven its veil of crape; And tenderer came from darkening wood and wild The voice far off of woman or of child. Who acts: towers, tend
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 41

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Yet still along that silver mere they lingered Oaring their weeping way by lawn and cape, Till evening, purple-stoled and dewy-fingered, O’er heaven’s sweet face had woven its veil of crape; And tenderer came from darkening wood and wild The voice far off of woman or of child.

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**Who acts:** towers, tenderer · **What happens:** linger, oar, stole, finger, weave, come · **To what, where:** silver mere, weeping way, sweet face, wood, voice

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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 (towers, tenderer), 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:pg78491:10:41
# text = Yet still along that silver mere they lingered Oaring their weeping way by lawn and cape, Till evening, purple-stoled and dewy-fingered, O’er heaven’s sweet face had woven its veil of crape; And tenderer came from darkening wood and wild The voice far off of woman or of child.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
3	along	along	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	mere	mere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	lingered	linger	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Oaring	oar	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	weeping	weeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	lawn	lawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	cape	cape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	Till	till	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	stoled	stole	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	dewy	dewy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	fingered	finger	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
29	O’er	O'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’s	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	woven	weave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	parataxis	_	_
36	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	crape	crape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	tenderer	tenderer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
44	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
45	darkening	darken	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	43	advcl	_	_
46	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
48	wild	wild	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	conj	_	_
49	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
51	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	48	advmod	_	_
52	off	off	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
55	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
56	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
57	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **linger** | past | towers *= tower* |  |  | that silver mere | still; evening |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along mere=Location |
| 2 | **oar** | gerund | towers *= tower* *not said here* | towers's weeping way |  |  |  | by lawn and cape | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme |
| 3 | **stole** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **finger** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **weave** | past · perfect · passive |  | O’er heaven's sweet face |  |  |  | face's veil of crape *obj* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: subject=Beneficiary veil=Product |
| 6 | **come** | past | tenderer |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **darken** | gerund | tenderer *not said here* | wood |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent wood=Patient |
| 8 | **wild** | infinitive | tenderer *not said here* | the voice |  |  |  | off woman or child; far *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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