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title: On the breast Pellucid, likewise, of Murthemné’s streams Benignant s… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: On the breast Pellucid, likewise, of Murthemné’s streams Benignant spirits scattered flowers and herbs With healing virtue dowered. Who acts: Benignant spirits, healing virtue. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15, wi
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 205

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On the breast Pellucid, likewise, of Murthemné’s streams Benignant spirits scattered flowers and herbs With healing virtue dowered.

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**Who acts:** Benignant spirits, healing virtue · **What happens:** scatter, dower · **To what, where:** flowers, breast Pellucid

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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 (Benignant spirits, healing virtue), 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:pg78491:15:207
# text = On the breast Pellucid, likewise, of Murthemné’s streams Benignant spirits scattered flowers and herbs With healing virtue dowered.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Pellucid	Pellucid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	Murthemné	Murthemné	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	streams	stream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
12	Benignant	Benignant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	scattered	scatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	With	with	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	healing	healing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	virtue	virtue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	dowered	dower	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scatter** | past | Benignant spirits | flowers and herbs |  | the breast Pellucid |  | of Murthemné's streams; likewise *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flower=Theme on pellucid=Destination |
| 2 | **dower** | past | healing virtue |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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