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title: Under the trials of nine centuries those sufferers alone retain a pe… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Under the trials of nine centuries those sufferers alone retain a perpetual childhood; their father’s house, and the still lake before it, stand ever before their imagination; and the burden of the years but falls on them for a moment, to be flung aside for ever. Who acts: sufferers, lake. A sentenc
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 4

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Under the trials of nine centuries those sufferers alone retain a perpetual childhood; their father’s house, and the still lake before it, stand ever before their imagination; and the burden of the years but falls on them for a moment, to be flung aside for ever.

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**Who acts:** sufferers, lake · **What happens:** retain, stand, fling, try, imagine, burden · **To what, where:** perpetual childhood, trials, imagination, nine centuries, years

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sufferers, lake), 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:pg78491:2:4
# text = Under the trials of nine centuries those sufferers alone retain a perpetual childhood; their father’s house, and the still lake before it, stand ever before their imagination; and the burden of the years but falls on them for a moment, to be flung aside for ever.
1	Under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	trials	trial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	sufferers	sufferer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
9	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	retain	retain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	perpetual	perpetual	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	childhood	childhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	still	still	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
24	before	before	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
28	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	27	advmod	_	_
29	before	before	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	_
39	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	falls	fall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	conj	_	_
41	on	on	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nmod	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
48	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	49	aux:pass	_	_
49	flung	fling	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	parataxis	_	_
50	aside	aside	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
51	for	for	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retain** | present | that sufferers | a perpetual childhood |  | the trials of nine centuries |  | sufferers's father's house *obl*; the burden of the years for a moment but falls on falls *obl*; alone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stand** | infinitive | the lake before childhood |  |  | sufferers's imagination | ever |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before imagination=Location |
| 3 | **fling** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  |  |  | aside *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **try** |  |  | nine centuries |  |  |  |  | nom trial «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **imagine** |  | sufferers *= sufferer* |  |  |  |  |  | nom imagination «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **burden** |  |  | the years |  |  | for a moment |  | nom burden «cognition transitive»: of=patient for=obl |

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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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