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title: In that face august Something unblest she saw, and ill to trust. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In that face august Something unblest she saw, and ill to trust. Who acts: dread. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 3, 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 3, sentence 21

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In that face august Something unblest she saw, and ill to trust.

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**Who acts:** dread · **What happens:** see, trust · **To what, where:** face

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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 (dread), 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:pg78491:3:21
# text = In that face august Something unblest she saw, and ill to trust.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	august	august	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	3	nmod	_	_
6	unblest	unblest	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	xcomp	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	trust	trust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | dread |  |  |  |  | ill *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **trust** | to-infinitive | dread *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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