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title: Since then he neither frowns on me nor smiles: He will not let me ru… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Since then he neither frowns on me nor smiles: He will not let me rule his foolish kings; Yet, deeming still my sword a charm ’gainst fate Wears it. Who acts: Eric, me, deeming, charm. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, par
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 39

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Since then he neither frowns on me nor smiles: He will not let me rule his foolish kings; Yet, deeming still my sword a charm ’gainst fate Wears it.

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**Who acts:** Eric, me, deeming, charm · **What happens:** frown, smile, not let, rule, deem, wear · **To what, where:** me, foolish kings, sword, fate

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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 (Eric, me, deeming, charm), 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:pg78491:12:41
# text = Since then he neither frowns on me nor smiles: He will not let me rule his foolish kings; Yet, deeming still my sword a charm ’gainst fate Wears it.
1	Since	since	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	frowns	frown	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	9	cc	_	_
9	smiles	smile	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	_
14	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
15	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	rule	rule	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	Yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	deeming	deem	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	csubj	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	_
29	’	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	gainst	gainst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
32	Wears	wear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frown** | present | Eric |  |  |  |  | on me; neither *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **smile** | present | Eric *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **not** **let** | future | Eric | me |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **rule** | infinitive | me *not said here* | Eric's foolish kings |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent king=Result |
| 5 | **deem** | gerund |  | my sword |  |  | yet; still | a charm's gainst fate *obj* | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent sword=Theme fate=Attribute |
| 6 | **wear** | present | deeming | fate |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 7 | **fate** |  | a charm |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event 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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