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title: The winter beam Thaws not the polar ice: o’er Rochad’s soul So passe… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The winter beam Thaws not the polar ice: o’er Rochad’s soul So passed the syren’s pleadings. Who acts: winter beam, soul, syren. 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 eve
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 125

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The winter beam Thaws not the polar ice: o’er Rochad’s soul So passed the syren’s pleadings.

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**Who acts:** winter beam, soul, syren · **What happens:** not thaw, pass, plead · **To what, where:** polar ice, pleadings

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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 (winter beam, soul, syren), 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:pg78491:14:127
# text = The winter beam Thaws not the polar ice: o’er Rochad’s soul So passed the syren’s pleadings.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	beam	beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	Thaws	thaw	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|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	polar	polar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	o’er	o'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	Rochad	Rochad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’s	's	PART	POS	_	11	case	_	_
13	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	So	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	syren	syren	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	pleadings	pleading	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **thaw** | present | the winter beam | the polar ice |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **pass** | past | Rochad's soul | the syren's pleadings |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme pleading=Trajectory |
| 3 | **plead** |  | the syren |  |  |  |  |  | nom pleading «communication intransitive»: 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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