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title: In wonder Meave Noted the weary lids, the vanishing bloom, The abrup… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In wonder Meave Noted the weary lids, the vanishing bloom, The abrupt accost, though haught yet unassured; The movements to mechanic changed, the mind Still strong, yet widowed of its flexile strength; These things she saw; their cause she ne’er divined: Love for the living Meave could understand: F
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 114

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In wonder Meave Noted the weary lids, the vanishing bloom, The abrupt accost, though haught yet unassured; The movements to mechanic changed, the mind Still strong, yet widowed of its flexile strength; These things she saw; their cause she ne’er divined: Love for the living Meave could understand: For her the dead was dead.

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**Who acts:** Meave, movements, things, cause · **What happens:** note, vanish, change, widow, see, divine · **To what, where:** weary lids, wonder, mind, Love

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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 (Meave, movements, things, cause), 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:pg78491:14:116
# text = In wonder Meave Noted the weary lids, the vanishing bloom, The abrupt accost, though haught yet unassured; The movements to mechanic changed, the mind Still strong, yet widowed of its flexile strength; These things she saw; their cause she ne’er divined: Love for the living Meave could understand: For her the dead was dead.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	Noted	note	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	weary	weary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	lids	lid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	vanishing	vanish	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	bloom	bloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	abrupt	abrupt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	accost	accost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	haught	haught	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	unassured	unassured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	movements	movement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	mechanic	mechanic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
30	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	widowed	widow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
36	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	flexile	flexile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
40	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	41	det	_	_
41	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
42	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	49	punct	_	_
45	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nsubj	_	_
47	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
48	ne’er	ne'er	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
49	divined	divine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	51	punct	_	_
51	Love	Love	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
52	for	for	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	living	living	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
55	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	nsubj	_	_
56	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	57	aux	_	_
57	understand	understand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	64	punct	_	_
59	For	for	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
60	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	64	nsubj	_	_
61	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	62	det	_	_
62	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
63	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	64	cop	_	_
64	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **note** | past | Meave | the weary lids |  | wonder |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lid=Topic |
| 2 | **vanish** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **change** | past | the movements to mechanic | the mind |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mind=Patient |
| 4 | **widow** | participle | the movements to mechanic *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of haught's flexile strength | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **see** | past | this things |  |  |  |  | Meave *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **divine** | past | things's cause | Love |  |  |  | for the living; ne'er *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **understand** | could | Meave |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 8 | **is** | past | Meave |  |  |  |  | dead *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **cause** |  | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: poss=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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