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title: Between their tents and Meave’s All that long night the buriers of t… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Between their tents and Meave’s All that long night the buriers of the dead Groped their sad way with red, earth-grazing torch, Turning the white face up in search of friend, Brother, or son. Who acts: buriers. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Au
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 182

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Between their tents and Meave’s All that long night the buriers of the dead Groped their sad way with red, earth-grazing torch, Turning the white face up in search of friend, Brother, or son.

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**Who acts:** buriers · **What happens:** grope, turn up, search · **To what, where:** sad way, white face, search, friend

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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 (buriers), 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:pg78491:15:184
# text = Between their tents and Meave’s All that long night the buriers of the dead Groped their sad way with red, earth-grazing torch, Turning the white face up in search of friend, Brother, or son.
1	Between	between	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	tents	tent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	All	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	10	det:predet	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	buriers	burier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	nmod	_	_
16	Groped	grope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
21	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	grazing	grazing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
32	up	up	ADP	RP	_	28	compound:prt	_	_
33	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	friend	friend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	Brother	Brother	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grope** | past | the buriers of the dead | foes's sad way |  |  | night | with red grazing torch | vn touch-20 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent way=Experiencer with torch=Instrument |
| 2 | **turn up** | gerund | the buriers of the dead *not said here* | the white face |  | search of friend |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location face=Theme |
| 4 | **search** |  |  | friend |  |  |  |  | nom search «act 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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