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title: And on the nod of him whom ye traduce, Your pageant crowns sit tremb… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And on the nod of him whom ye traduce, Your pageant crowns sit trembling. Who acts: ye, pageant crowns, Your. 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 67

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And on the nod of him whom ye traduce, Your pageant crowns sit trembling.

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**Who acts:** ye, pageant crowns, Your · **What happens:** traduce, sit, tremble, nod, crown · **To what, where:** nod, battle

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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 (ye, pageant crowns, Your), 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:pg78491:15:69
# text = And on the nod of him whom ye traduce, Your pageant crowns sit trembling.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	nod	nod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
8	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	9	nsubj	_	_
9	traduce	traduce	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	pageant	pageant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sit	sit	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	trembling	tremble	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **traduce** | present | ye | the nod of battle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sit** | present | Your pageant crowns |  |  | the nod of battle |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **tremble** | gerund | Your pageant crowns *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **nod** |  |  | battle |  |  |  |  | nom nod «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **crown** |  | Your |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=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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