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title: Shoreward the creatures moved; And when he heard them speak with hum… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Shoreward the creatures moved; And when he heard them speak with human tongue That love he felt grew tenderer and more strong. Who acts: Shoreward, love. 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 dependency tree 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 6

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Shoreward the creatures moved; And when he heard them speak with human tongue That love he felt grew tenderer and more strong.

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**Who acts:** Shoreward, love · **What happens:** move, hear, speak, feel, grow · **To what, where:** creatures, love, tenderer · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Shoreward, love), 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:pg78491:10:6
# text = Shoreward the creatures moved; And when he heard them speak with human tongue That love he felt grew tenderer and more strong.
1	Shoreward	shoreward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	moved	move	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
6	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	9	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	speak	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
20	tenderer	tenderer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
23	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **move** | past | Shoreward |  |  |  |  | the creatures *nsubj* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hear** | past | Shoreward | creatures *= creature* |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 3 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | Shoreward *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with human tongue | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with tongue=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **feel** | past | love | that love *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Theme |
| 5 | **grow** | past | that love | tenderer |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tenderer=Theme |

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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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