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title: Close as bark to tree The azure robe clung to that virgin form Sinew… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Close as bark to tree The azure robe clung to that virgin form Sinewy and long, and reached the shining feet. Who acts: azure robe. 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 76

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Close as bark to tree The azure robe clung to that virgin form Sinewy and long, and reached the shining feet.

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**Who acts:** azure robe · **What happens:** cling, form, reach, shine · **To what, where:** azure robe, shining feet

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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 (azure robe), 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:pg78491:11:78
# text = Close as bark to tree The azure robe clung to that virgin form Sinewy and long, and reached the shining feet.
1	Close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	case	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	azure	azure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	clung	cling	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	virgin	virgin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	form	form	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	Sinewy	sinewy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	amod	_	_
22	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cling** | participle |  | the azure robe *not said here* |  |  |  | to that virgin | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to virgin=Co-Theme |
| 2 | **form** | present | the azure robe |  |  |  |  | close bark to tree; sinewy *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **reach** | past | the azure robe *not said here* | the shining feet |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent foot=Theme |
| 4 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «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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