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title: How, glorying in her loveliness, her sire Had sworn no chief should… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: How, glorying in her loveliness, her sire Had sworn no chief should ever call her wife Who won her not by valour; how that youth Had scaled his rock and slain his guards and forth Led her by hand, a downward-looking bride, Majestic, unconsenting, undismayed, But likewise unreluctant. Who acts: chief
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 34

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How, glorying in her loveliness, her sire Had sworn no chief should ever call her wife Who won her not by valour; how that youth Had scaled his rock and slain his guards and forth Led her by hand, a downward-looking bride, Majestic, unconsenting, undismayed, But likewise unreluctant.

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**Who acts:** chief, wife · **What happens:** glory, swear, call, not win, scale, slain · **To what, where:** loveliness, sire, wife, Eimer, youth, guards · **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 (chief, wife), 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:pg78491:14:36
# text = How, glorying in her loveliness, her sire Had sworn no chief should ever call her wife Who won her not by valour; how that youth Had scaled his rock and slain his guards and forth Led her by hand, a downward-looking bride, Majestic, unconsenting, undismayed, But likewise unreluctant.
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	glorying	glory	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	loveliness	loveliness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	Had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	sworn	swear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
14	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	16	advmod	_	_
16	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	parataxis	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	valour	valour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
26	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
27	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
28	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	Had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	scaled	scale	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	slain	slain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	conj	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	Led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	conj	_	_
40	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	by	by	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
45	downward	downward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	48	amod	_	_
48	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
50	Majestic	majestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	unconsenting	unconsent	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	50	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
54	undismayed	undismayed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
57	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
58	unreluctant	unreluctant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glory** | gerund |  |  |  | Eimer's loveliness |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **swear** | past · perfect · passive |  | Eimer's sire |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **call** | should | no chief |  | Eimer's wife |  | ever |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **win** | past | Eimer's wife | Eimer |  |  |  | by valour | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
| 5 | **scale** | past · perfect · passive |  | that youth |  |  |  | youth's rock *obj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **slain** | infinitive |  | youth's guards |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **lead** | past |  | Eimer |  |  |  | by hand; forth *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme by hand=Destination |
| 8 | **look** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 9 | **unconsent** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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