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title: Twixt passions twain at war Meave silent stood. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Twixt passions twain at war Meave silent stood. Who acts: Twixt, Meave silent. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 115

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Twixt passions twain at war Meave silent stood.

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**Who acts:** Twixt, Meave silent · **What happens:** passion, stand · **To what, where:** twain, war

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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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Twixt, Meave silent), 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:pg78491:15:117
# text = Twixt passions twain at war Meave silent stood.
1	Twixt	Twixt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	passions	passion	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	twain	twain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **passion** | present | Twixt | twain |  | war |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | past | Meave silent |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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