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title: In its blissful prime That island was, men say, as Eden fair, The sw… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In its blissful prime That island was, men say, as Eden fair, The swan-soft nurseling of a changeful clime, With amaranth-lighted glades, and tremulous sheen Of trees full-flowered on earth no longer seen. Who acts: men. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 46

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In its blissful prime That island was, men say, as Eden fair, The swan-soft nurseling of a changeful clime, With amaranth-lighted glades, and tremulous sheen Of trees full-flowered on earth no longer seen.

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** be, light, flower, see · **To what, where:** island, tremulous sheen, earth, blissful prime

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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 (men), 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:pg78491:10:46
# text = In its blissful prime That island was, men say, as Eden fair, The swan-soft nurseling of a changeful clime, With amaranth-lighted glades, and tremulous sheen Of trees full-flowered on earth no longer seen.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
3	blissful	blissful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	prime	prime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	Eden	eden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	fair	fair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	nurseling	nurseling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	changeful	changeful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	clime	clime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	With	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	amaranth	amaranth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	glades	glade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
33	tremulous	tremulous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	sheen	sheen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
35	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	_
37	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	flowered	flower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
42	no	no	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
43	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	44	advmod	_	_
44	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | men | that island *not said here* |  |  |  | Eden fair and lighted glades and tremulous sheen of trees *ccomp*; say *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **light** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | amaranth *compound* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **flower** | participle |  | tremulous sheen of trees *not said here* |  | earth |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Location |
| 4 | **see** | participle |  | earth *not said here* |  |  |  | long *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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