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title: Around that lake with oldest oakwoods shaded Were all things that to… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Around that lake with oldest oakwoods shaded Were all things that to eye are witching most, Green slopes, dew drenched, and gray rocks ivy-braided; Yet speechless was the region as a ghost: No whisper shook those woods; no tendril stirred; Nor e’er beside the cave was ripple heard. Who acts: shaded 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 49

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Around that lake with oldest oakwoods shaded Were all things that to eye are witching most, Green slopes, dew drenched, and gray rocks ivy-braided; Yet speechless was the region as a ghost: No whisper shook those woods; no tendril stirred; Nor e’er beside the cave was ripple heard.

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**Who acts:** shaded things, whisper, Nor e’er · **What happens:** shade, witch, drench, braid, be, shake · **To what, where:** Green slopes, dew, gray rocks, region, lake, woods

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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 (shaded things, whisper, Nor e’er), 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:pg78491:10:49
# text = Around that lake with oldest oakwoods shaded Were all things that to eye are witching most, Green slopes, dew drenched, and gray rocks ivy-braided; Yet speechless was the region as a ghost: No whisper shook those woods; no tendril stirred; Nor e’er beside the cave was ripple heard.
1	Around	around	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	oldest	old	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	oakwoods	oakwood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	shaded	shade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
8	Were	were	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
13	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	witching	witch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	Green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	slopes	slope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	drenched	drench	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	gray	gray	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	ivy	ivy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	braided	braid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	speechless	speechless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
36	as	as	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
40	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	41	det	_	_
41	whisper	whisper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
42	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
43	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	44	det	_	_
44	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
46	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	47	det	_	_
47	tendril	tendril	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
48	stirred	stir	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	47	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	Nor	Nor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	e’er	e'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	conj	_	_
52	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nsubj:pass	_	_
55	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	aux:pass	_	_
56	ripple	ripple	ADV	RB	_	57	advmod	_	_
57	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	51	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shade** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **witch** | present · progressive | all shaded things | Green slopes and dew |  |  |  | eye *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **drench** | participle |  | dew *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **braid** | participle · passive |  | gray rocks |  |  |  | ivy *compound* | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | the region and no tendril and Nor e’er |  | that lake with oldest oakwoods and all shaded things |  | as a ghost; no tendril and Nor e’er *conj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **shake** | past | no whisper | that woods |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wood=Patient |
| 7 | **stir** | participle |  | no tendril and Nor e’er *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **hear** | past · passive | Nor e’er *not said here* | the cave |  |  |  | ripple *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |

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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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