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title: Silent he stood While Leagh in reverence from the dead man’s breast… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Silent he stood While Leagh in reverence from the dead man’s breast Loosened his mail. Who acts: Silent, breast. 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 tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 208

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Silent he stood While Leagh in reverence from the dead man’s breast Loosened his mail.

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**Who acts:** Silent, breast · **What happens:** stand, loosen, mail · **To what, where:** Leagh, reverence, mail

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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 (Silent, breast), 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:pg78491:13:210
# text = Silent he stood While Leagh in reverence from the dead man’s breast Loosened his mail.
1	Silent	silent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	Leagh	Leagh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	reverence	reverence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	Loosened	loosen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	mail	mail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | Silent | Leagh |  | reverence |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in reverence=Location |
| 2 | **loosen** | past | the dead man's breast | breast's mail |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent mail=Patient |
| 3 | **mail** |  | breast |  |  |  |  |  | nom mail «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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