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title: ‘That day the wise will serve Him; but the fool Will sport with Ogha… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘That day the wise will serve Him; but the fool Will sport with Ogham stave, or dragon-fly That lights his spark--lo there--on dusky pool! Who acts: fool, dragon fly, fly. 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
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 37

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‘That day the wise will serve Him; but the fool Will sport with Ogham stave, or dragon-fly That lights his spark--lo there--on dusky pool!

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**Who acts:** fool, dragon fly, fly · **What happens:** serve, sport, light, spark · **To what, where:** creature, spark

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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 (fool, dragon fly, fly), 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:pg78491:3:37
# text = ‘That day the wise will serve Him; but the fool Will sport with Ogham stave, or dragon-fly That lights his spark--lo there--on dusky pool!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	serve	serve	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fool	fool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	Ogham	Ogham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	stave	stave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
20	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	fly	fly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj	_	_
24	lights	light	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	spark	spark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	_
29	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	dusky	dusky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	pool	pool	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **serve** | future |  | creature |  | there | day | dusky pool *parataxis* | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute |
| 2 | **sport** | future | the fool |  |  |  |  | with Ogham stave | tree rules |
| 3 | **light** | present | dragon fly | fly's spark |  |  |  | That *nsubj* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spark=Product |
| 4 | **spark** |  | fly |  |  |  |  |  | nom spark «event intransitive»: poss=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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