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title: Then, as one from trance Waking, once more he spake: ‘Oh me--oh me,… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, as one from trance Waking, once more he spake: ‘Oh me--oh me, That I should see that face so great and pale! Who acts: man, That. 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
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 216

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Then, as one from trance Waking, once more he spake: ‘Oh me--oh me, That I should see that face so great and pale!

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**Who acts:** man, That · **What happens:** speak, see · **To what, where:** face · **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 (man, That), 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:pg78491:13:218
# text = Then, as one from trance Waking, once more he spake: ‘Oh me--oh me, That I should see that face so great and pale!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	trance	trance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Waking	waking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	16	discourse	_	_
16	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	compound	_	_
25	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* |  | man |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | should | That | that face |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer face=Stimulus |

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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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