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title: Sharper that day their speech; For, in the intenser present, years g… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Sharper that day their speech; For, in the intenser present, years gone by Hung but like pallid, thin, horizon clouds O’er memory’s loneliest limit. Who acts: deeds. 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 depe
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 152

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Sharper that day their speech; For, in the intenser present, years gone by Hung but like pallid, thin, horizon clouds O’er memory’s loneliest limit.

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**Who acts:** deeds · **What happens:** go, speak · **To what, where:** intenser present, Sharper speech · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (deeds), 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:pg78491:13:154
# text = Sharper that day their speech; For, in the intenser present, years gone by Hung but like pallid, thin, horizon clouds O’er memory’s loneliest limit.
1	Sharper	sharp	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
7	For	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	intenser	intense	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Hung	Hung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	pallid	pallid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	thin	thin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	horizon	horizon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	clouds	cloud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
26	O’er	O'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	loneliest	lonely	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	30	amod	_	_
30	limit	limit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | participle |  | the intenser present and years and horizon clouds and O’er memory's loneliest limit *not said here* |  |  |  | by Hung | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by hung=Location |
| 3 | **speak** |  | deeds *= deed* |  |  |  |  | for the intenser present and years and horizon clouds and O’er memory's loneliest limit | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |

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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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