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title: And doubtless,’ thus ran on the careless elf, ‘Who hides in sport wi… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And doubtless,’ thus ran on the careless elf, ‘Who hides in sport will show His face in love; Much seeking will not find Him. Who acts: Much seeking. 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 t
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 33

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And doubtless,’ thus ran on the careless elf, ‘Who hides in sport will show His face in love; Much seeking will not find Him.

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**Who acts:** Much seeking · **What happens:** run, hide, show, not find · **To what, where:** face, elf

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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 (Much seeking), 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:pg78491:3:33
# text = And doubtless,’ thus ran on the careless elf, ‘Who hides in sport will show His face in love; Much seeking will not find Him.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	doubtless	doubtless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	careless	careless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	elf	elf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	hides	hide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	show	show	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	14	parataxis	_	_
19	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
24	Much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	seeking	seeking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
28	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
29	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run** | past |  |  |  |  |  | on the careless elf; thus *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on elf=Trajectory |
| 2 | **hide** | present |  |  |  |  |  | Who *nsubj* | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **show** | future |  | elf's face |  |  |  | in love; in sport | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Patient in sport=Topic |
| 4 | **not** **find** | future | Much seeking | elf |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |

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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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