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title: Older, beyond her island bounds she strayed Despite the king; for, e… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Older, beyond her island bounds she strayed Despite the king; for, ever since her birth, Of nought that tender heart had been afraid: Banshee, or ghost, she heard of, now with mirth, And now with awe, but never with affright; And gladly would have faced them if she might. Who acts: island, Banshee. 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 44

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Older, beyond her island bounds she strayed Despite the king; for, ever since her birth, Of nought that tender heart had been afraid: Banshee, or ghost, she heard of, now with mirth, And now with awe, but never with affright; And gladly would have faced them if she might.

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**Who acts:** island, Banshee · **What happens:** bound, stray, be, hear, face · **To what, where:** birth

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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 (island, Banshee), 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:pg78491:3:44
# text = Older, beyond her island bounds she strayed Despite the king; for, ever since her birth, Of nought that tender heart had been afraid: Banshee, or ghost, she heard of, now with mirth, And now with awe, but never with affright; And gladly would have faced them if she might.
1	Older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	bounds	bound	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	strayed	stray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	Despite	despite	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
16	since	since	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	birth	birth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	nought	nought	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	18	appos	_	_
22	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
23	tender	tender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	27	cop	_	_
27	afraid	afraid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
29	Banshee	Banshee	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	ghost	ghost	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
35	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	parataxis	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	40	advmod	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	mirth	mirth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
43	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	45	advmod	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	awe	awe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
47	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	50	advmod	_	_
49	with	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	affright	affright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	56	punct	_	_
52	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
53	gladly	gladly	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
54	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
55	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	aux	_	_
56	faced	face	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
57	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obj	_	_
58	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	60	mark	_	_
59	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
60	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	56	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bound** | present | child's island |  |  |  |  | for child's birth but affright | tree rules |
| 2 | **stray** | past | island |  |  |  |  | despite the king | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  | tender heart *nsubj*; awe *conj*; afraid *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hear** | past | Banshee |  |  |  |  | mirth *conj* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **face** | would · perfect | child's island *not said here* | birth |  |  |  | gladly *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Destination |

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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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