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title: That highway lofty and straight Foreshowed that ne’er in tortuous wa… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: That highway lofty and straight Foreshowed that ne’er in tortuous ways or base Should walk that infant. Who acts: That, ne’er. 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
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 43

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That highway lofty and straight Foreshowed that ne’er in tortuous ways or base Should walk that infant.

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**Who acts:** That, ne’er · **What happens:** highway, foreshow, walk · **To what, where:** infant

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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 (That, ne’er), 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:pg78491:15:45
# text = That highway lofty and straight Foreshowed that ne’er in tortuous ways or base Should walk that infant.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	highway	highway	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	Foreshowed	foreshow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
8	ne’er	ne'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	tortuous	tortuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	Should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	walk	walk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	infant	infant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **highway** | present | That |  |  |  |  | lofty *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **foreshow** | past | That *not said here* |  |  |  |  | straight *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **walk** | should | ne’er in tortuous ways or base | that infant |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent infant=Agent |

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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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