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title: Thus speaking, with both hands Deftly he spread them wide; and Salta… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus speaking, with both hands Deftly he spread them wide; and Saltain slept: Then, tethering first the horses of his sire, Lastly his own, upon the chill, wet grass He likewise lay, and slept not. Who acts: hand, Saltain. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroi
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 105

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Thus speaking, with both hands Deftly he spread them wide; and Saltain slept: Then, tethering first the horses of his sire, Lastly his own, upon the chill, wet grass He likewise lay, and slept not.

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**Who acts:** hand, Saltain · **What happens:** speak, spread, sleep, tether, lie, not sleep · **To what, where:** wits, horses, wet grass · **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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hand, Saltain), 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:pg78491:11:107
# text = Thus speaking, with both hands Deftly he spread them wide; and Saltain slept: Then, tethering first the horses of his sire, Lastly his own, upon the chill, wet grass He likewise lay, and slept not.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	speaking	speak	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
7	Deftly	deftly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	wide	wide	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	Saltain	Saltain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	tethering	tether	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
20	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	22	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Lastly	lastly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	chill	chill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	wet	wet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
37	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
43	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	42	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | gerund | hand *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **spread** | past | hand | wits *= wit* |  |  |  | with both hands; deftly, wide *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with hand=Theme |
| 3 | **sleep** | past | Saltain |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **tether** | gerund | Saltain *not said here* | the horses of Saltain's sire |  |  | then | upon the chill | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **lie** | past | hand | wet grass *not said here* |  |  |  | likewise *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grass=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **sleep** | past | Saltain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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