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title: On, at dawn They drave; but Faythleen, witch perverse of will, That… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: On, at dawn They drave; but Faythleen, witch perverse of will, That oft through spleenful change her purpose slew, Had broken tryst; and northward they returned. Who acts: wits. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11, w
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 106

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On, at dawn They drave; but Faythleen, witch perverse of will, That oft through spleenful change her purpose slew, Had broken tryst; and northward they returned.

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**Who acts:** wits · **What happens:** drave, witch, break, return · **To what, where:** Faythleen, tryst

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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 (wits), 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:pg78491:11:108
# text = On, at dawn They drave; but Faythleen, witch perverse of will, That oft through spleenful change her purpose slew, Had broken tryst; and northward they returned.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	drave	drave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Faythleen	Faythleen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	witch	witch	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	9	appos	_	_
12	perverse	perverse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
17	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
18	through	through	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	spleenful	spleenful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	slew	slew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	Had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	parataxis	_	_
27	tryst	tryst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	northward	northward	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drave** | present | wits *= wit* | Faythleen |  |  | dawn |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **witch** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | perverse *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **break** | past · perfect |  | tryst |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tryst=Patient |
| 4 | **return** | past | wits *= wit* |  |  |  |  | northward *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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