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title: Meantime his son Took counsel in his heart, and made resolve To skir… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Meantime his son Took counsel in his heart, and made resolve To skirt, in homeward course, that eastern sea, The woods primeval ’twixt him and the foe, Still sallying night and day through alley and glade And taming thus their pride. Who acts: Meantime, primeval ’, alley. A sentence of «The foray of
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 114

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Meantime his son Took counsel in his heart, and made resolve To skirt, in homeward course, that eastern sea, The woods primeval ’twixt him and the foe, Still sallying night and day through alley and glade And taming thus their pride.

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**Who acts:** Meantime, primeval ’, alley · **What happens:** take, make, resolve, skirt, sally, pride · **To what, where:** counsel, heart, primeval ’, homeward course, pride, alley

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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 (Meantime, primeval ’, alley), 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:pg78491:11:116
# text = Meantime his son Took counsel in his heart, and made resolve To skirt, in homeward course, that eastern sea, The woods primeval ’twixt him and the foe, Still sallying night and day through alley and glade And taming thus their pride.
1	Meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
4	Took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
12	resolve	resolve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
13	To	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	skirt	skirt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	homeward	homeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
21	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
26	primeval	primeval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	’	'	X	GW	_	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	twixt	twixt	X	ADD	_	27	goeswith	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	goeswith	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	sallying	sally	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
36	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
39	through	through	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	alley	alley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	glade	glade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
43	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	taming	taming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	_
45	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
46	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Meantime  many's son | counsel |  | many's heart |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent counsel=Value in heart=Location |
| 2 | **make** | past | Meantime  many's son *not said here* | primeval ’  many and the foe |  | homeward course |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **resolve** | infinitive | primeval ’  many and the foe *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **skirt** | to-infinitive | primeval ’  many and the foe *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **sally** | gerund | Meantime  many's son *not said here* | alley's pride |  | alley and glade and taming | still; night |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **pride** |  | alley |  |  |  |  |  | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=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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