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title: In the self-same field That night their coursers grazed not; neither… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In the self-same field That night their coursers grazed not; neither sat Their charioteers beside the self-same fire: Nor sent they, each to other, healing herbs. Who acts: coursers, Nor. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 156

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In the self-same field That night their coursers grazed not; neither sat Their charioteers beside the self-same fire: Nor sent they, each to other, healing herbs.

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**Who acts:** coursers, Nor · **What happens:** not graze, sit, send, heal · **To what, where:** same field, charioteers, same fire, wailings, other, herbs

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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 (coursers, Nor), 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:pg78491:13:158
# text = In the self-same field That night their coursers grazed not; neither sat Their charioteers beside the self-same fire: Nor sent they, each to other, healing herbs.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
7	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	coursers	courser	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	grazed	graze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
16	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	charioteers	charioteer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
20	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
25	Nor	Nor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
27	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	obl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	healing	heal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
34	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **graze** | past | wailings's coursers |  |  | the same field | night |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sit** | past | wailings's coursers *not said here* | wailings's charioteers |  | the same fire |  | neither *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent charioteer=Theme beside fire=Location |
| 3 | **send** | past | Nor | wailings *= wailing* |  | other |  | each *obl* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to other=Destination |
| 4 | **heal** | gerund | Nor *not said here* | herbs |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent herb=Patient |

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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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