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title: With eye Reverently dewed the princess gazed thereon: ‘Aye, of your… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: With eye Reverently dewed the princess gazed thereon: ‘Aye, of your war-deeds I have heard so long, It seems as though since childhood--Whence that wound? Who acts: princess, I, It. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 1
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 43

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With eye Reverently dewed the princess gazed thereon: ‘Aye, of your war-deeds I have heard so long, It seems as though since childhood--Whence that wound?

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**Who acts:** princess, I, It · **What happens:** dew, gaze, hear, seem

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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 (princess, I, It), 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:pg78491:13:45
# text = With eye Reverently dewed the princess gazed thereon: ‘Aye, of your war-deeds I have heard so long, It seems as though since childhood--Whence that wound?
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	Reverently	reverently	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	dewed	dew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
8	thereon	thereon	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	Aye	aye	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
26	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	though	though	ADV	RB	_	25	xcomp	_	_
28	since	since	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	conj	_	_
32	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	wound	wound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dew** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with eye; reverently *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **gaze** | past | the princess |  |  |  |  | thereon *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  | of your war deeds; long *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of deed=Stimulus |
| 4 | **seem** | present | It |  |  |  | since childhood |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=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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