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title: Thereon the morn Laughed, dewy-bright: and lo! where long had lain P… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 219

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Thereon the morn Laughed, dewy-bright: and lo! where long had lain Pallor of death, now burned a healthful red: Not less they dared not touch him; since with him \_Geisa\_ it was if any broke his rest.

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**Who acts:** morn, Came · **What happens:** laugh, have, burn, touch, be · **To what, where:** lain Pallor, Pallor

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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 (morn, Came), 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:pg78491:15:221
# text = Thereon the morn Laughed, dewy-bright: and lo! where long had lain Pallor of death, now burned a healthful red: Not less they dared not touch him; since with him _Geisa_ it was if any broke his rest.
1	Thereon	thereon	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	morn	morn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	Laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	dewy	dewy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
11	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	15	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
14	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	lain	lain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	Pallor	Pallor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	healthful	healthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
27	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	_
29	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
30	dared	dare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
31	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
32	touch	touch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	parataxis	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	since	since	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
38	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	Geisa	Geisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	15	punct	_	_
41	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
42	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
43	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	_
44	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	45	nsubj	_	_
45	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | the morn |  |  |  |  | thereon *property* | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | the morn *not said here* | lain Pallor of death |  |  | since Pallor | Geisa *obj*; long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **burn** | past | the morn *not said here* |  |  |  | now | red *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **touch** | past | Came | Pallor |  |  |  | less *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | morn |  |  |  |  | Pallor's rest *obj*; break *property* | 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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