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title: And she, ‘I see a kingdom’s destinies; And they are like a countenan… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And she, ‘I see a kingdom’s destinies; And they are like a countenance dashed with blood: Faythleen am I, the Witch.’ Who acts: Queen, destinies. 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 78

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And she, ‘I see a kingdom’s destinies; And they are like a countenance dashed with blood: Faythleen am I, the Witch.’

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**Who acts:** Queen, destinies · **What happens:** see, be, dash · **To what, where:** destinies, countenance, I

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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 (Queen, destinies), 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:pg78491:11:80
# text = And she, ‘I see a kingdom’s destinies; And they are like a countenance dashed with blood: Faythleen am I, the Witch.’
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	destinies	destiny	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
14	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
18	dashed	dash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Faythleen	Faythleen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
23	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Witch	witch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present | Queen | a kingdom's destinies |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer destiny=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | present | destinies *= destiny* |  |  |  |  | like a countenance; Faythleen *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **dash** | participle |  | a countenance *not said here* |  |  |  | with blood | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with blood=Instrument |
| 4 | **is a** | present | destinies *= destiny* *not said here* | I |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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