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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 65

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If so, ’tis likely she resembles me: They chide me oft; “No Gaelic face is thine, Dark-eyed, dark-browed, a rebel since its birth!”’

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**Who acts:** bride, methinks, Gaelic face · **What happens:** resemble, chide, be, brow · **To what, where:** tis, me, rebel · **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 (bride, methinks, Gaelic face), 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:pg78491:13:67
# text = If so, ’tis likely she resembles me: They chide me oft; “No Gaelic face is thine, Dark-eyed, dark-browed, a rebel since its birth!”’
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	’	'	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	tis	tis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
6	likely	likely	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	resembles	resemble	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	chide	chide	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
18	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
21	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	Dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	browed	brow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	rebel	rebel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
33	since	since	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **resemble** | present | bride | tis |  |  |  | me *obj*; likely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **chide** | present | methinks *= methink* | me |  |  |  | oft *property* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | present | no Gaelic face |  |  |  |  | thine *nmod:poss*; eyed *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **brow** *in a quote* | participle | no Gaelic face *not said here* | a rebel |  |  | since face's birth |  | tree rules |

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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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