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title: Forlorn it lay On hill and heath and plain and distant mere, Forlorn… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Forlorn it lay On hill and heath and plain and distant mere, Forlorner on the haggard face--for oft A face, still fair, in anguish antedates Its future--of that woman as she knelt, She knelt at last, low on that threshold low. Who acts: Forlorn, woman. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and ot
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 137

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Forlorn it lay On hill and heath and plain and distant mere, Forlorner on the haggard face--for oft A face, still fair, in anguish antedates Its future--of that woman as she knelt, She knelt at last, low on that threshold low.

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**Who acts:** Forlorn, woman · **What happens:** lie, antedate, kneel · **To what, where:** hill, future, anguish, woman, last low

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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 (Forlorn, woman), 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:pg78491:14:139
# text = Forlorn it lay On hill and heath and plain and distant mere, Forlorner on the haggard face--for oft A face, still fair, in anguish antedates Its future--of that woman as she knelt, She knelt at last, low on that threshold low.
1	Forlorn	forlorn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	On	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	heath	heath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	plain	plain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	mere	mere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Forlorner	Forlorner	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	haggard	haggard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	anguish	anguish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
30	antedates	antedate	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
31	Its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	future	future	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
36	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
37	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
38	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	knelt	kneel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	nsubj	_	_
42	knelt	kneel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
43	at	at	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
46	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	obl	_	_
47	on	on	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	49	det	_	_
49	threshold	threshold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
50	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past | Forlorn |  |  | hill and heath and plain mere |  | for a oft face; Orient *nsubj* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location |
| 2 | **antedate** | present | Forlorn *not said here* | Orient's future |  | anguish |  | of that woman | tree rules |
| 3 | **kneel** | past | woman | that woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic |
| 4 | **kneel** | past | woman |  |  | last low |  | on that threshold | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at low=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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