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title: Servitors Brimmed oft the goblets; and Ferdīa’s brow, As song to son… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Servitors Brimmed oft the goblets; and Ferdīa’s brow, As song to song succeeded, tale to tale, Remitted its first sternness. Who acts: Servitors, tale. 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 an
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 36

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Servitors Brimmed oft the goblets; and Ferdīa’s brow, As song to song succeeded, tale to tale, Remitted its first sternness.

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**Who acts:** Servitors, tale · **What happens:** brim, succeed, remit · **To what, where:** oft goblets, tale, first sternness

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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 (Servitors, tale), 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:pg78491:13:38
# text = Servitors Brimmed oft the goblets; and Ferdīa’s brow, As song to song succeeded, tale to tale, Remitted its first sternness.
1	Servitors	servitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
2	Brimmed	brim	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	_
3	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	goblets	goblet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
8	Ferdīa	Ferdīa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	As	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Remitted	remit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	25	amod	_	_
25	sternness	sternness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brim** | participle | Servitors *not said here* | the oft goblets |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **succeed** | past | Servitors | tale |  |  |  | to tale; Ferdīa's brow *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **remit** | participle | tale *not said here* | tale's first sternness |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent sternness=Theme |

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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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