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title: Mournfully at last withdrew Those eyes, like eyes fated thenceforth… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Mournfully at last withdrew Those eyes, like eyes fated thenceforth to bear One image on till death. 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 79

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Mournfully at last withdrew Those eyes, like eyes fated thenceforth to bear One image on till death.

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**What happens:** withdraw, fate, bear · **To what, where:** eyes, last, One image, death

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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: 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:pg78491:13:81
# text = Mournfully at last withdrew Those eyes, like eyes fated thenceforth to bear One image on till death.
1	Mournfully	mournfully	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
4	withdrew	withdraw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	Those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	like	like	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
10	fated	fate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	thenceforth	thenceforth	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
14	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	till	till	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **withdraw** | past |  | that eyes |  | last |  | like eyes; mournfully *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 2 | **fate** | participle |  | eyes *not said here* |  |  |  | thenceforth *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bear** | to-infinitive |  | One image |  | death |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent image=Patient |

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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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