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title: Spirit-rapt, yet awed, Perforce thus sang he standing near the marge. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Spirit-rapt, yet awed, Perforce thus sang he standing near the marge. Who acts: Perforce. 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 98

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Spirit-rapt, yet awed, Perforce thus sang he standing near the marge.

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**Who acts:** Perforce · **What happens:** awe, sing, stand · **To what, where:** marge

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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 (Perforce), 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:pg78491:13:100
# text = Spirit-rapt, yet awed, Perforce thus sang he standing near the marge.
1	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	rapt	rapt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	awed	awe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	Perforce	Perforce	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	near	near	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	marge	marge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Perforce |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund | Perforce |  |  | the marge |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near marge=Location |

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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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