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title: Like one who thinks Not speaks, she murmured low; ‘A soothsayer Thus… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 56

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Like one who thinks Not speaks, she murmured low; ‘A soothsayer Thus warned my mother--I was then a child-- “Bring not that maid to war-fields!

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**Who acts:** race, soothsayer, I · **What happens:** not think, speak, murmur, warn, be, not bring · **To what, where:** mother, child, maid, war fields · **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 (race, soothsayer, I), 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:pg78491:13:58
# text = Like one who thinks Not speaks, she murmured low; ‘A soothsayer Thus warned my mother--I was then a child-- “Bring not that maid to war-fields!
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
6	speaks	speak	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	murmured	murmur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
10	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	soothsayer	soothsayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	warned	warn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
22	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
29	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **think** *speech: other* | present |  |  |  |  |  | like one; who *nsubj* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **murmur** *speech: other* | past | race |  |  |  |  | low *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **warn** *speech: warn* | past | a soothsayer |  | my mother and a child |  |  | thus *property* | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 5 | **is a** | past | I | a child |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **bring** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | that maid |  | war fields |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent maid=Theme to field=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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