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title: She ceased; again she spake: ‘Even now, methinks, That lullaby I spa… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: She ceased; again she spake: ‘Even now, methinks, That lullaby I spake of I can hear! Who acts: bride, I, methinks. 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 66

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She ceased; again she spake: ‘Even now, methinks, That lullaby I spake of I can hear!

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**Who acts:** bride, I, methinks · **What happens:** cease, speak, hear · **To what, where:** she spake, lullaby · **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, I, methinks), 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:pg78491:13:68
# text = She ceased; again she spake: ‘Even now, methinks, That lullaby I spake of I can hear!
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ceased	cease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	compound	_	_
6	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	methinks	methink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	lullaby	lullaby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	spake	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nmod	_	_
20	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cease** | past | bride | she spake |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector speak=Eventuality |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | I | that lullaby of I *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hear** | can | methinks |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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