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title: The old man satisfied, Garrulity returned, though less than once, No… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The old man satisfied, Garrulity returned, though less than once, Now quelled by patriot passion. Who acts: old man. 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 125

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The old man satisfied, Garrulity returned, though less than once, Now quelled by patriot passion.

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**Who acts:** old man · **What happens:** return, quell · **To what, where:** less

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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 (old man), 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:pg78491:12:127
# text = The old man satisfied, Garrulity returned, though less than once, Now quelled by patriot passion.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	satisfied	satisfied	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
6	Garrulity	Garrulity	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	obl	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	fixed	_	_
12	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	quelled	quell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	patriot	patriot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | the old man | less |  |  |  | Garrulity *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **quell** | participle | the old man *not said here* |  |  |  | now | by patriot passion | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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