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title: While thus he sat He saw, not distant, on the forest floor, In moonb… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: While thus he sat He saw, not distant, on the forest floor, In moonbeams clad, though moon was near him none, A pure and princely presence. Who acts: Clan, moonbeams. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12, with its dep
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 108

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While thus he sat He saw, not distant, on the forest floor, In moonbeams clad, though moon was near him none, A pure and princely presence.

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**Who acts:** Clan, moonbeams · **What happens:** sit, see, clad, be · **To what, where:** forest floor, none

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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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Clan, moonbeams), 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:pg78491:12:110
# text = While thus he sat He saw, not distant, on the forest floor, In moonbeams clad, though moon was near him none, A pure and princely presence.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
5	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	In	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	moonbeams	moonbeam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	clad	clad	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	near	near	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
25	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
28	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	princely	princely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	_
31	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sit** | past | Clan |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **see** | past | Clan |  |  | the forest floor |  | distant *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **clad** | past | moonbeams | none  a pure presence |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | near Clan | 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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