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title: Two men alone she saw; at times the king: His grizzled beard and sea… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Two men alone she saw; at times the king: His grizzled beard and searching eye she fled, And wept to think that in some far-off spring She must be his. Who acts: Two men, flower. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 3, w
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 19

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Two men alone she saw; at times the king: His grizzled beard and searching eye she fled, And wept to think that in some far-off spring She must be his.

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**Who acts:** Two men, flower · **What happens:** see, grizzle, search, flee, weep, think · **To what, where:** eye, king

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two men, flower), 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:pg78491:3:19
# text = Two men alone she saw; at times the king: His grizzled beard and searching eye she fled, And wept to think that in some far-off spring She must be his.
1	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	grizzled	grizzle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	searching	search	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
17	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	think	think	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
27	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	nsubj	_	_
28	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	off	off	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	ccomp	_	_
32	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
33	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
34	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	35	cop	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Two men |  |  |  | time | flower *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **grizzle** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **search** | gerund | Two men *not said here* | eye |  |  |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Location |
| 4 | **flee** | past | flower | eye *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eye=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **weep** | past | Two men *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **think** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Two men *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is a** | must | flower | king |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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