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title: Lithe his form In youthful prime: chain armour round him clung Brigh… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lithe his form In youthful prime: chain armour round him clung Bright as if woven of diamonds. Who acts: Lithe form, Clan. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 109

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Lithe his form In youthful prime: chain armour round him clung Bright as if woven of diamonds.

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**Who acts:** Lithe form, Clan · **What happens:** cling, weave, form · **To what, where:** youthful prime

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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 (Lithe form, Clan), 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:pg78491:12:111
# text = Lithe his form In youthful prime: chain armour round him clung Bright as if woven of diamonds.
1	Lithe	Lithe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	In	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	youthful	youthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	prime	prime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
8	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
10	round	round	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	clung	cling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	Bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	woven	weave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	diamonds	diamond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cling** | past | Clan's Lithe form in youthful prime |  |  |  |  | chain armour round Clan *nsubj*; bright *property* | vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **weave** | participle | Clan's Lithe form in youthful prime *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of diamonds | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme of diamond=Trajectory |
| 3 | **form** |  | Clan |  |  | youthful prime |  |  | nom form «communication transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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