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title: Thus Meave a circle traced round Uladh’s realm, And heard the murmur… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus Meave a circle traced round Uladh’s realm, And heard the murmur of its three great seas, Yet nothing wrought of perdurable fame. Who acts: you. 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 t
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 80

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Thus Meave a circle traced round Uladh’s realm, And heard the murmur of its three great seas, Yet nothing wrought of perdurable fame.

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** meave, trace, hear, murmur · **To what, where:** circle, murmur, three great seas

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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 (you), 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:pg78491:14:82
# text = Thus Meave a circle traced round Uladh’s realm, And heard the murmur of its three great seas, Yet nothing wrought of perdurable fame.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	Meave	meave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	circle	circle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	traced	trace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	round	round	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	murmur	murmur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
17	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	conj	_	_
23	wrought	wrought	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	perdurable	perdurable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meave** | imperative | you *not said here* | a circle |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **trace** | participle |  | a circle *not said here* |  |  |  | round Uladh's realm | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **hear** | past |  | the murmur of murmur's three great seas |  |  |  | nothing *conj* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer murmur=Stimulus |
| 4 | **murmur** |  |  | murmur's three great seas |  |  |  |  | nom murmur «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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