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title: Then, with a brightening in her old, pale face, Her nurse resumed: ‘… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, with a brightening in her old, pale face, Her nurse resumed: ‘But we--the Gael--but we, The offspring are we of a lordlier race, The heirs of some diviner destiny! Who acts: nurse, we. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Openin
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 49

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Then, with a brightening in her old, pale face, Her nurse resumed: ‘But we--the Gael--but we, The offspring are we of a lordlier race, The heirs of some diviner destiny!

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**Who acts:** nurse, we · **What happens:** brighten, resume, be

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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 (nurse, we), 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:pg78491:3:49
# text = Then, with a brightening in her old, pale face, Her nurse resumed: ‘But we--the Gael--but we, The offspring are we of a lordlier race, The heirs of some diviner destiny!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
5	brightening	brighten	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
8	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	nurse	nurse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	resumed	resume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Gael	Gael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
25	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	offspring	offspring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
30	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	lordlier	lordly	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	34	amod	_	_
34	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	heirs	heir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	41	det	_	_
40	diviner	divine	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	41	amod	_	_
41	destiny	destiny	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **brighten** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **resume** | past | child's nurse |  |  |  | then | child's brightening old pale face *advcl*; the Gael  we *conj* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **is** | present | we |  |  |  |  | of a lordlier race and the heirs of some diviner destiny; the heirs of some diviner destiny *conj* | 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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