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title: His cheek upon the shoulder sank of Leagh, And all men deemed him de… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: His cheek upon the shoulder sank of Leagh, And all men deemed him dead. Who acts: cheek, men. 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 clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 211

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His cheek upon the shoulder sank of Leagh, And all men deemed him dead.

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**Who acts:** cheek, men · **What happens:** sink, deem · **To what, where:** Devastated

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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 (cheek, men), 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:pg78491:15:213
# text = His cheek upon the shoulder sank of Leagh, And all men deemed him dead.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Leagh	Leagh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	deemed	deem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	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 | **sink** | past | Devastated's cheek upon the shoulder |  |  |  |  | of Leagh | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **deem** | past | all men | Devastated |  |  |  | dead *property* | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Attribute |

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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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