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title: She saw her power was gone; And all that posthumous life late hers s… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: She saw her power was gone; And all that posthumous life late hers sank back In embers lost and ashes. Who acts: Rochad, power, that, posthumous life. 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
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 132

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She saw her power was gone; And all that posthumous life late hers sank back In embers lost and ashes.

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**Who acts:** Rochad, power, that, posthumous life · **What happens:** see, be, life, sink back, lose · **To what, where:** embers · **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 (Rochad, power, that, posthumous life), 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:pg78491:14:134
# text = She saw her power was gone; And all that posthumous life late hers sank back In embers lost and ashes.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
8	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
10	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj	_	_
11	posthumous	posthumous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
14	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	In	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	embers	ember	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
19	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	ashes	ash	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Rochad |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | Rochad's power |  |  |  |  | gone *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **life** |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sink back** | past | all posthumous life |  |  | embers |  | Rochad *nsubj*; late *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **lose** | participle |  | embers *not said here* |  |  |  | ashes *conj* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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