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title: The Gael is restless; lives on chance and change; The clan grows hom… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Gael is restless; lives on chance and change; The clan grows home-sick: victory in its grasp, Pines for the babe unkissed, or field unreaped: My counsel then is Aulnau’s. Who acts: Gael, clan, victory, field. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 56

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The Gael is restless; lives on chance and change; The clan grows home-sick: victory in its grasp, Pines for the babe unkissed, or field unreaped: My counsel then is Aulnau’s.

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**Who acts:** Gael, clan, victory, field · **What happens:** be, grow, unkiss, unreap, grasp · **To what, where:** counsel

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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 (Gael, clan, victory, field), 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:pg78491:14:58
# text = The Gael is restless; lives on chance and change; The clan grows home-sick: victory in its grasp, Pines for the babe unkissed, or field unreaped: My counsel then is Aulnau’s.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Gael	Gael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	restless	restless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	clan	clan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
15	home	home	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
19	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	grasp	grasp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Pines	pine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
25	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	babe	babe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	unkissed	unkiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	unreaped	unreap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
34	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	_
36	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	38	advmod	_	_
37	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	Aulnau	Aulnau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’s	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Gael |  |  |  |  | lives on chance and change *obl*; restless *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | present | the clan |  |  |  |  | sick *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **unkiss** | past | victory in victory's grasp |  |  |  |  | Pines for the babe *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **unreap** | participle | field | My counsel |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  | then | 's Aulnau | tree rules |
| 6 | **grasp** |  | victory |  |  |  |  |  | nom grasp «cognition transitive»: poss=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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