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title: O’er that stone In mirthful mood he twined an osier wreath, Cypherin… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: O’er that stone In mirthful mood he twined an osier wreath, Cyphering thereon his name in Ogham signs: For thus he said; ‘On no man unawares Fall I, but warned.’ Who acts: O’er, man unawares. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Openi
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 116

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O’er that stone In mirthful mood he twined an osier wreath, Cyphering thereon his name in Ogham signs: For thus he said; ‘On no man unawares Fall I, but warned.’

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**Who acts:** O’er, man unawares · **What happens:** twine, cypher, say, fall, warn, name · **To what, where:** osier wreath, name, Ogham signs · **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 (O’er, man unawares), 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:pg78491:11:118
# text = O’er that stone In mirthful mood he twined an osier wreath, Cyphering thereon his name in Ogham signs: For thus he said; ‘On no man unawares Fall I, but warned.’
1	O’er	o'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	det	_	_
3	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod:unmarked	_	_
4	In	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	mirthful	mirthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	twined	twine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	osier	osier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	wreath	wreath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Cyphering	cypher	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
14	thereon	thereon	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	Ogham	Ogham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	For	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	24	obl	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
26	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	On	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	30	det	_	_
29	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	unawares	unaware	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
31	Fall	fall	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	warned	warn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **twine** | past | O’er  that stone in mirthful mood | a osier wreath |  |  |  |  | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wreath=Theme |
| 2 | **cypher** | gerund | O’er  that stone in mirthful mood *not said here* | O’er's name |  | Ogham signs |  | thereon *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | O’er *= o'er* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fall** | present | no man unawares |  |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **warn** *speech: warn* | past | O’er *= o'er* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **name** |  | O’er *= o'er* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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