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title: Then fixed that Wild One on the North her eyes, And Meave made answe… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then fixed that Wild One on the North her eyes, And Meave made answer; ‘In those eyes I see The fates they see; great Uladh’s realm full-armed, And all that Red Branch Order as one man.’ Who acts: eyes, fates. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aub
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 81

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Then fixed that Wild One on the North her eyes, And Meave made answer; ‘In those eyes I see The fates they see; great Uladh’s realm full-armed, And all that Red Branch Order as one man.’

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**Who acts:** eyes, fates · **What happens:** fix, make, see · **To what, where:** eyes, North, fates

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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 (eyes, fates), 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:pg78491:11:83
# text = Then fixed that Wild One on the North her eyes, And Meave made answer; ‘In those eyes I see The fates they see; great Uladh’s realm full-armed, And all that Red Branch Order as one man.’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	fixed	fix	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	Wild	Wild	PROPN	NNP	_	5	nmod:unmarked	_	_
5	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	advcl	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	In	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
21	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fates	fate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
28	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
32	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
37	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	41	det:predet	_	_
38	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
39	Red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
40	Branch	Branch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	compound	_	_
41	Order	Order	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	_
42	as	as	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	44	nummod	_	_
44	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | past |  | Wild's eyes |  | the North | then | One  Wild *advcl*; made answer *conj*; great Uladh's realm *parataxis* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent eye=Patient |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | Meave *compound* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **see** | present | that eyes | the fates |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus |
| 4 | **see** | present | fates *= fate* | the fates *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus |

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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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