--- title: In old time, Then when some God had laid on me his hand, Dectara, my… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: In old time, Then when some God had laid on me his hand, Dectara, my wife, immured me in my house, Year after year, and weighed the lessening dole: But thou, to manhood grown, though even to her Reverent, didst pluck her from that place usurped, Lifting thy poor old father.’ Who acts: God, hand, pla --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/101/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The foray of Queen Meave, and other le…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/) / [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/) / 101 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 101 In old time, Then when some God had laid on me his hand, Dectara, my wife, immured me in my house, Year after year, and weighed the lessening dole: But thou, to manhood grown, though even to her Reverent, didst pluck her from that place usurped, Lifting thy poor old father.’ **Who acts:** God, hand, place · **What happens:** lay, immure, weigh, lessen, grow, do · **To what, where:** me, house, lessening dole, manhood, Reverent, wife This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, hand, place), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78491:11:103 # text = In old time, Then when some God had laid on me his hand, Dectara, my wife, immured me in my house, Year after year, and weighed the lessening dole: But thou, to manhood grown, though even to her Reverent, didst pluck her from that place usurped, Lifting thy poor old father.’ 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 10 advmod _ _ 6 when when SCONJ WRB _ 10 mark _ _ 7 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 8 det _ _ 8 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 aux _ _ 10 laid lay VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 21 advcl _ _ 11 on on ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 12 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 obl _ _ 13 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 16 Dectara Dectara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 19 nmod:poss _ _ 19 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 immured immure VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 22 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 24 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 Year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 28 after after ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 year year NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 weighed weigh VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 21 conj _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 lessening lessen VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 amod _ _ 35 dole dole NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 : : PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 37 But but CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 38 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 32 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 40 to to ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 manhood manhood NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 42 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 44 though though SCONJ IN _ 48 mark _ _ 45 even even ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ _ 46 to to ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 48 nmod:poss _ _ 48 Reverent Reverent PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 50 didst do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 51 pluck pluck VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 50 xcomp _ _ 52 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 51 obj _ _ 53 from from SCONJ IN _ 56 mark _ _ 54 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 55 det _ _ 55 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 nsubj _ _ 56 usurped usurp VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 51 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 57 , , PUNCT , _ 58 punct _ _ 58 Lifting lift VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 56 advcl _ _ 59 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 62 nmod:poss _ _ 60 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 amod _ _ 61 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 amod _ _ 62 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 63 . . PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 64 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** | past · perfect | some God | | | | then; time | on me | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on i=Destination | | 2 | **immure** | past | sight's hand | me | | my house Year after year | | | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | | 3 | **weigh** | past | sight's hand *not said here* | the lessening dole | | | | to manhood; thou *parataxis* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme dole=Value | | 4 | **lessen** | gerund | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **grow** | participle | | manhood *not said here* | wife's Reverent | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **do** | past | sight's hand *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **pluck** | infinitive | sight's hand *not said here* | wife | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | | 8 | **usurp** | past | that place | | | | | | tree rules | | 9 | **lift** | gerund | that place *not said here* | thy poor old father | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/100/) - next →: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/102/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/)