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title: Wondering, all men gazed, And maidens, lifted on the warriors’ shiel… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wondering, all men gazed, And maidens, lifted on the warriors’ shields, Gladdened, so bright that youthful face. Who acts: men. 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 ever
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 52

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Wondering, all men gazed, And maidens, lifted on the warriors’ shields, Gladdened, so bright that youthful face.

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**Who acts:** men · **What happens:** wonder, gaze, lift, gladden · **To what, where:** maidens, shields

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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 (men), 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:pg78491:12:54
# text = Wondering, all men gazed, And maidens, lifted on the warriors’ shields, Gladdened, so bright that youthful face.
1	Wondering	wonder	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	4	det	_	_
4	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	maidens	maiden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	lifted	lift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	shields	shield	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Gladdened	gladden	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	parataxis	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	youthful	youthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wonder** *speech: ask* | gerund | all men *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **gaze** | past | all men | maidens |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lift** | participle |  | maidens *not said here* |  |  |  | the warriors's shields *obl:agent* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **gladden** | participle |  | the warriors's shields *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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