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title: Upon the warrior’s hand Still nigh to hers, there lay a scar. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon the warrior’s hand Still nigh to hers, there lay a scar. 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 42

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Upon the warrior’s hand Still nigh to hers, there lay a scar.

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**What happens:** lay · **To what, where:** scar, hand

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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: 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:pg78491:13:44
# text = Upon the warrior’s hand Still nigh to hers, there lay a scar.
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’s	's	PART	POS	_	3	case	_	_
5	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
6	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
11	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
12	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	scar	scar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | present |  | a scar |  | the warrior's hand to music; there |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent scar=Theme upon hand=Destination |

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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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