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title: Beams and showers Alone might pierce that soil sabbatical; Such reve… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Beams and showers Alone might pierce that soil sabbatical; Such reverence held the spot. Who acts: Beams, Such reverence. 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 clau
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 16

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Beams and showers Alone might pierce that soil sabbatical; Such reverence held the spot.

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**Who acts:** Beams, Such reverence · **What happens:** pierce, hold · **To what, where:** soil, spot

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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 (Beams, Such reverence), 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:pg78491:15:18
# text = Beams and showers Alone might pierce that soil sabbatical; Such reverence held the spot.
1	Beams	beam	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	showers	shower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	conj	_	_
4	Alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
5	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	pierce	pierce	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	soil	soil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	sabbatical	sabbatical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	reverence	reverence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pierce** | might | Beams and showers | that soil |  |  |  | sabbatical *property* | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soil=Patient |
| 2 | **hold** | past | Such reverence | the spot |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=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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