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title: ‘Ferdīa! dearer to my heart wert thou Than all beside if all were jo… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Ferdīa! dearer to my heart wert thou Than all beside if all were joined in one: Dear was thy clouded face, and darksome eye; Thy deep, sad voice; thy words so wise and few; Dear was thy silence: dear thy slow, grave ways, Not boastful like the Gael’s.’ Who acts: thy. A sentence of «The foray of Que
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 207

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‘Ferdīa! dearer to my heart wert thou Than all beside if all were joined in one: Dear was thy clouded face, and darksome eye; Thy deep, sad voice; thy words so wise and few; Dear was thy silence: dear thy slow, grave ways, Not boastful like the Gael’s.’

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**Who acts:** thy · **What happens:** join, cloud, be, word · **To what, where:** all, Dear clouded face, wise silence

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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 (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:pg78491:13:209
# text = ‘Ferdīa! dearer to my heart wert thou Than all beside if all were joined in one: Dear was thy clouded face, and darksome eye; Thy deep, sad voice; thy words so wise and few; Dear was thy silence: dear thy slow, grave ways, Not boastful like the Gael’s.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Ferdīa	Ferdīa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	dearer	dear	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
8	wert	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	8	obj	_	_
10	Than	than	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	obl	_	_
12	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	clouded	cloud	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	darksome	darksome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
30	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
38	so	so	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	Dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	_
44	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
45	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	53	punct	_	_
48	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
49	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	53	nmod:poss	_	_
50	slow	slow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
52	grave	grave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	56	advmod	_	_
56	boastful	boastful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
57	like	like	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
58	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	59	det	_	_
59	Gael	Gael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	’s	's	PART	POS	_	59	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **join** | past · passive |  | all |  |  |  | in one | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **cloud** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | thy Dear clouded face and darksome eye and thy words |  |  |  | thy *nmod:poss*; darksome eye *conj*; thy words *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **is a** | past |  | thy wise silence |  |  |  | thy dear slow grave ways *nmod*; thy *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 6 | **word** |  | thy |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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