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title: Even then she knew not The inevitable shaft had pierced whate’er Of… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Even then she knew not The inevitable shaft had pierced whate’er Of woman heart was hers. Who acts: Vanity, whate’er. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 14, 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 14, sentence 107

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Even then she knew not The inevitable shaft had pierced whate’er Of woman heart was hers.

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**Who acts:** Vanity, whate’er · **What happens:** not know, pierce, be · **To what, where:** inevitable shaft, Vanity · **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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vanity, whate’er), 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:pg78491:14:109
# text = Even then she knew not The inevitable shaft had pierced whate’er Of woman heart was hers.
1	Even	even	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	inevitable	inevitable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	shaft	shaft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	pierced	pierce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
11	whate’er	whate'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
12	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **know** | past | Vanity |  |  |  | then |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **pierce** | past · perfect · passive |  | the inevitable shaft |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **is a** | past | whate’er of woman heart | Vanity |  |  |  |  | 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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