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title: Of those that marked him, some Had reverence for his sadness: lesser… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Of those that marked him, some Had reverence for his sadness: lesser souls That long had hated, loathed the man that hour. Who acts: some. 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 pragmat
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 185

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Of those that marked him, some Had reverence for his sadness: lesser souls That long had hated, loathed the man that hour.

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**Who acts:** some · **What happens:** mark, have, hate, loathe · **To what, where:** man, reverence, lesser souls

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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 (some), 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:pg78491:15:187
# text = Of those that marked him, some Had reverence for his sadness: lesser souls That long had hated, loathed the man that hour.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	obl	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	nsubj	_	_
8	Had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	reverence	reverence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
14	lesser	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
15	souls	soul	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
17	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	hated	hate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	loathed	loathe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | past |  | man |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | some | reverence |  |  |  | of those; for man's sadness | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reverence=Patient |
| 3 | **hate** | past · perfect · passive |  | lesser souls |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 4 | **loathe** | past |  | the man  hour |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus |

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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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