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title: In that early springtide the hard and rugged March buds of Song were… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In that early springtide the hard and rugged March buds of Song were scarcely distinguishable from the rough rind of fact out of which they had pushed. Who acts: hard March buds, buds. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, par
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 40

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In that early springtide the hard and rugged March buds of Song were scarcely distinguishable from the rough rind of fact out of which they had pushed.

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**Who acts:** hard March buds, buds · **What happens:** be, push · **To what, where:** early springtide, fact

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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 (hard March buds, buds), 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:pg78491:2:40
# text = In that early springtide the hard and rugged March buds of Song were scarcely distinguishable from the rough rind of fact out of which they had pushed.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	early	early	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	springtide	springtide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
6	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	rugged	rugged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	March	March	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	buds	bud	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Song	Song	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	distinguishable	distinguishable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	rough	rough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	rind	rind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	pushed	push	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the hard March buds of Song |  |  | that early springtide |  | from the rough rind of fact; distinguishable, scarcely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **push** | past · perfect | buds *= bud* |  |  | fact |  |  | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent out which=Trajectory |

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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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