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title: Nor spade, nor plough Till then that virgin region had profaned; Nor… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nor spade, nor plough Till then that virgin region had profaned; Nor sound, save Shenan’s murmur, stirred therein. Who acts: plough, Nor spade, Shenan. 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 an
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 14

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Nor spade, nor plough Till then that virgin region had profaned; Nor sound, save Shenan’s murmur, stirred therein.

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**Who acts:** plough, Nor spade, Shenan · **What happens:** profane, save, stir, murmur · **To what, where:** virgin region, murmur

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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 (plough, Nor spade, Shenan), 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:pg78491:15:16
# text = Nor spade, nor plough Till then that virgin region had profaned; Nor sound, save Shenan’s murmur, stirred therein.
1	Nor	nor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	spade	spade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	5	cc	_	_
5	plough	plough	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	Till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	virgin	virgin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	profaned	profane	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Nor	Nor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	Shenan	Shenan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	murmur	murmur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	stirred	stir	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
23	therein	therein	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **profane** | past · perfect · passive | plough *not said here* | that virgin region |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **save** | infinitive | Nor spade | Shenan's murmur |  |  |  | Nor sound *nsubj* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent murmur=Theme |
| 3 | **stir** | participle |  | Shenan's murmur *not said here* |  |  |  | therein *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **murmur** |  | Shenan |  |  |  |  |  | nom murmur «event 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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