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title: Softly she paced, As though with woman’s foot, the grassy marge In v… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Softly she paced, As though with woman’s foot, the grassy marge In violets diapered, and laid her head Upon Cuchullain’s shoulder. Who acts: wave. 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
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 234

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Softly she paced, As though with woman’s foot, the grassy marge In violets diapered, and laid her head Upon Cuchullain’s shoulder.

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**Who acts:** wave · **What happens:** pace, diaper, lay · **To what, where:** foot, violets, head, shoulder

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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 (wave), 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:pg78491:11:236
# text = Softly she paced, As though with woman’s foot, the grassy marge In violets diapered, and laid her head Upon Cuchullain’s shoulder.
1	Softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	paced	pace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	As	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	though	though	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	grassy	grassy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	marge	marge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
15	In	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	violets	violet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	diapered	diaper	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pace** | past | wave | woman's foot and the grassy marge in violets |  |  |  | softly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location foot=Theme |
| 2 | **diaper** | participle |  | violets *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **lay** | past | wave *not said here* | wave's head |  | Cuchullain's shoulder |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme upon shoulder=Destination |

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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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