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title: That morning he had wed A maid, the loveliest in his mother’s court,… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: That morning he had wed A maid, the loveliest in his mother’s court, And yearned to prove his valour in her eyes. Who acts: Orloff. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 172

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That morning he had wed A maid, the loveliest in his mother’s court, And yearned to prove his valour in her eyes.

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**Who acts:** Orloff · **What happens:** w, yearn, prove · **To what, where:** maid, valour, eyes

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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 (Orloff), 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:pg78491:11:174
# text = That morning he had wed A maid, the loveliest in his mother’s court, And yearned to prove his valour in her eyes.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	wed	w	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	yearned	yearn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	valour	valour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **w** | past · perfect | Orloff | a maid |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **yearn** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **prove** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | Orloff's valour |  | mother's eyes |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent valour=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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