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title: Yet he who laid them low Was beardless at the lip:--While thus they… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet he who laid them low Was beardless at the lip:--While thus they strove A second month went by. Who acts: horde, Eterconnel, second month. 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 prag
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 62

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Yet he who laid them low Was beardless at the lip:--While thus they strove A second month went by.

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**Who acts:** horde, Eterconnel, second month · **What happens:** lay, strive, go by · **To what, where:** Eterconnel, lip

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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 (horde, Eterconnel, second month), 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:pg78491:12:64
# text = Yet he who laid them low Was beardless at the lip:--While thus they strove A second month went by.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Was	Be	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	beardless	beardless	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	lip	lip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	strove	strive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	20	amod	_	_
20	month	month	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past | horde | Eterconnel |  | the lip |  | who *nsubj*; low Was *obj*; beardless *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=Theme be=Destination |
| 2 | **strive** | past | Eterconnel |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **go by** | past | a second month |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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