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title: Her eye was on the north:-- Not distant stood two hills: she asked t… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Her eye was on the north:-- Not distant stood two hills: she asked their names: Her great eyes darkened when the answer came Of Gairig and Ilgairig. ’ Who acts: eye, distant, chance, great eyes. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Op
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 92

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Her eye was on the north:-- Not distant stood two hills: she asked their names: Her great eyes darkened when the answer came Of Gairig and Ilgairig. ’

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**Who acts:** eye, distant, chance, great eyes, answer, eyes · **What happens:** be, stand, ask, darken, come, name · **To what, where:** north, two hills, names

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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 (eye, distant, chance, great eyes), 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:pg78491:15:94
# text = Her eye was on the north:-- Not distant stood two hills: she asked their names: Her great eyes darkened when the answer came Of Gairig and Ilgairig. ’
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	nsubj	_	_
11	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	asked	ask	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	darkened	darken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
24	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	27	mark	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	advcl	_	_
28	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Gairig	Gairig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	Ilgairig	Ilgairig	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | chance's eye |  |  | the north |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | past | distant | two hills |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hill=Stimulus |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | past | chance | eyes's names |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient |
| 4 | **darken** | past | chance's great eyes |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **come** | past | the answer |  |  |  |  | of Gairig and Ilgairig | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of gairig=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **name** |  | eyes *= eye* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «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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