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title: As they sang Above that suffering face there passed a smile; And whe… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: As they sang Above that suffering face there passed a smile; And where that smile had lain there crept a tear; And in few minutes more asleep he sank Who had not slept nine days. Who acts: guards, youth. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 35

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As they sang Above that suffering face there passed a smile; And where that smile had lain there crept a tear; And in few minutes more asleep he sank Who had not slept nine days.

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**Who acts:** guards, youth · **What happens:** sing, pass, lie, creep, sink, not sleep · **To what, where:** suffering face, smile, tear

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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 (guards, youth), 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:pg78491:14:37
# text = As they sang Above that suffering face there passed a smile; And where that smile had lain there crept a tear; And in few minutes more asleep he sank Who had not slept nine days.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
4	Above	above	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	suffering	suffering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	18	advmod	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	lain	lie	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	parataxis	_	_
19	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
20	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	tear	tear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
24	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	minutes	minute	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
28	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	_
29	asleep	asleep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	advcl	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	advcl	_	_
32	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
35	slept	sleep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	ccomp	_	_
36	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | guards *= guard* |  |  | that suffering face |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above face=Location |
| 2 | **pass** | past | guards *= guard* *not said here* | a smile |  | there |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme smile=Trajectory |
| 3 | **lie** | past · perfect · passive |  | that smile |  | there |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **creep** | past |  | a tear |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location tear=Theme |
| 5 | **sink** | past | youth |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **sleep** | past · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  | day | Who *nsubj:pass* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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