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title: From the marge Cuchullain sadly marked the advancing foe:-- ‘Alas, m… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: From the marge Cuchullain sadly marked the advancing foe:-- ‘Alas, my brother! beamless is thine eye; The radiance lives no longer on thy hair; And slow thy step.’ Who acts: advancing foe, radiance, thy. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 146

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From the marge Cuchullain sadly marked the advancing foe:-- ‘Alas, my brother! beamless is thine eye; The radiance lives no longer on thy hair; And slow thy step.’

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**Who acts:** advancing foe, radiance, thy · **What happens:** mark, be, live, step · **To what, where:** slow step, marge, eye, hair

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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 (advancing foe, radiance, thy), 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:pg78491:13:148
# text = From the marge Cuchullain sadly marked the advancing foe:-- ‘Alas, my brother! beamless is thine eye; The radiance lives no longer on thy hair; And slow thy step.’
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	marge	marge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	sadly	sadly	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	advancing	advancing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Alas	ala	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	brother	brother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
18	beamless	beamless	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
23	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	radiance	radiance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	no	no	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	25	advmod	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
32	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
33	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	step	step	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	35	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | past |  | thy slow step |  | the marge |  | sadly *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | present | the advancing foe and beamless | thine eye |  |  |  | thine *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | present | the radiance |  |  | thy hair |  | long *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hair=Location |
| 4 | **step** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom step «act 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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