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title: That hand, of flower amerced, drew nearer yet To his. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: That hand, of flower amerced, drew nearer yet To his. Who acts: hand. 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 68

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That hand, of flower amerced, drew nearer yet To his.

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**Who acts:** hand · **What happens:** amerce, draw · **To what, where:** flower

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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 (hand), 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:pg78491:13:70
# text = That hand, of flower amerced, drew nearer yet To his.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	flower	flower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
6	amerced	amerce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	xcomp	_	_
10	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	To	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **amerce** | participle |  | flower *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **draw** | past | that hand and flower |  |  |  | yet | near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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