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title: It may be That dread one will relent, pitying in her Great Uladh’s s… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: It may be That dread one will relent, pitying in her Great Uladh’s self despoiled of robe and crown, Her raiment bonds and shame.’ Who acts: sole, one, Maid. 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 t
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 19

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It may be That dread one will relent, pitying in her Great Uladh’s self despoiled of robe and crown, Her raiment bonds and shame.’

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**Who acts:** sole, one, Maid · **What happens:** be, relent, pity, despoil, bond · **To what, where:** raiment bonds, Great self

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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 (sole, one, Maid), 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:pg78491:12:21
# text = It may be That dread one will relent, pitying in her Great Uladh’s self despoiled of robe and crown, Her raiment bonds and shame.’
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
5	dread	drea	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nsubj	_	_
7	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	relent	relent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	pitying	pity	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
13	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	despoiled	despoil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	raiment	raiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	bonds	bond	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | may | sole |  |  |  |  | That *nsubj*; drea *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **relent** | future | one | Maid's raiment bonds and shame |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **pity** | gerund | one *not said here* |  |  | Maid's Great self |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **despoil** | participle |  | Maid's Great self *not said here* |  |  |  | of robe and crown | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent of robe=Theme |
| 5 | **bond** |  | Maid |  |  |  |  |  | nom bond «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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