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title: In his tent She heard her father with her mother speak; ‘She yet may… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In his tent She heard her father with her mother speak; ‘She yet may wear the crown: her maiden fame Is lost forever!’ Who acts: tent. 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 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 153

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In his tent She heard her father with her mother speak; ‘She yet may wear the crown: her maiden fame Is lost forever!’

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**Who acts:** tent · **What happens:** hear, wear, lose · **To what, where:** father, tent, crown, maiden fame

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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 (tent), 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:pg78491:14:155
# text = In his tent She heard her father with her mother speak; ‘She yet may wear the crown: her maiden fame Is lost forever!’
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	speak	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	wear	wear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	advcl	_	_
26	forever	forever	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | tent | tent's father |  | eve's tent |  | with tent's mother speak | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer father=Stimulus |
| 2 | **wear** | may | tent | the crown |  |  | yet |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent crown=Theme |
| 3 | **lose** | present · passive |  | tent's maiden fame |  |  |  | forever *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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