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title: Once In Scatha’s isle far otherwise thou camest Morn after morn with… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Once In Scatha’s isle far otherwise thou camest Morn after morn with tidings fresh of war Plaything and pastime of our brother swords. Who acts: thou, brother. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13, with its dependency
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 119

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Once In Scatha’s isle far otherwise thou camest Morn after morn with tidings fresh of war Plaything and pastime of our brother swords.

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**Who acts:** thou, brother · **What happens:** come, sword · **To what, where:** Morn, isle, pastime

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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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, brother), 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:pg78491:13:121
# text = Once In Scatha’s isle far otherwise thou camest Morn after morn with tidings fresh of war Plaything and pastime of our brother swords.
1	Once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	Scatha	Scatha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	isle	isle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
9	camest	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Morn	Morn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	morn	morn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	_
15	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Plaything	plaything	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	pastime	pastime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	swords	sword	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | thou | Morn |  | Scatha's isle | after morn with tidings | otherwise *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location morn=Theme |
| 2 | **sword** | present | our brother | pastime *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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