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title: Glad his eye; Dulcet his voice as strain from Elfin glen Far heard o… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Glad his eye; Dulcet his voice as strain from Elfin glen Far heard o’er waters. Who acts: you, Dulcet voice. 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 clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 110

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Glad his eye; Dulcet his voice as strain from Elfin glen Far heard o’er waters.

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**Who acts:** you, Dulcet voice · **What happens:** glad, hear · **To what, where:** eye, o’er waters, Elfin

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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 (you, Dulcet voice), 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:pg78491:12:112
# text = Glad his eye; Dulcet his voice as strain from Elfin glen Far heard o’er waters.
1	Glad	glad	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	Dulcet	Dulcet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	strain	strain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Elfin	Elfin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
12	glen	Glen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	_
13	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
14	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
15	o’er	o'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glad** | imperative | you *not said here* | Clan's eye |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | past | Clan's Dulcet voice as strain | o’er waters |  | Elfin |  | far *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Topic from elfin=Source |

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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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