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title: The saint baptized them in the Name Divine, And, swift as thought, t… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The saint baptized them in the Name Divine, And, swift as thought, their happy spirits at last To God’s high feast and singing angels passed. Who acts: saint, angels. 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 dep
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 74

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The saint baptized them in the Name Divine, And, swift as thought, their happy spirits at last To God’s high feast and singing angels passed.

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**Who acts:** saint, angels · **What happens:** baptize, swift, sing, pass · **To what, where:** speech, Name Divine, happy spirits · **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 (saint, angels), 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:pg78491:10:74
# text = The saint baptized them in the Name Divine, And, swift as thought, their happy spirits at last To God’s high feast and singing angels passed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	saint	saint	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	baptized	baptize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Name	Name	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Divine	Divine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	swift	swift	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
20	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	To	To	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	singing	sing	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	conj	_	_
28	angels	angel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
29	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **baptize** | past | the saint | speech |  | the Name Divine |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **swift** | present | the saint *not said here* | speech's happy spirits at last To God's high feast |  |  |  | as thought | tree rules |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | gerund | the saint *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **pass** | past | angels |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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