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title: Time on her brow had graved no characters; Sorrow no splendour stol’… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Time on her brow had graved no characters; Sorrow no splendour stol’n from that wide eye That ever, as the legend old avers, Reposed on some far seat of sovereignty By others hoped;--to her alone revealed Beyond sea-cloud, and ocean’s heaving field. Who acts: legend, others, ocean ’s. A sentence of 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 53

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Time on her brow had graved no characters; Sorrow no splendour stol’n from that wide eye That ever, as the legend old avers, Reposed on some far seat of sovereignty By others hoped;--to her alone revealed Beyond sea-cloud, and ocean’s heaving field.

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**Who acts:** legend, others, ocean ’s · **What happens:** grave, sorrow, aver, repose, hope, reveal · **To what, where:** characters, splendour stol’n, wide eye, far seat, Beyond, Scota

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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 (legend, others, ocean ’s), 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:pg78491:3:53
# text = Time on her brow had graved no characters; Sorrow no splendour stol’n from that wide eye That ever, as the legend old avers, Reposed on some far seat of sovereignty By others hoped;--to her alone revealed Beyond sea-cloud, and ocean’s heaving field.
1	Time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	graved	grave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Sorrow	sorrow	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
12	splendour	splendour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	stol’n	stol'n	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
19	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
25	avers	aver	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Reposed	repose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	xcomp	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
30	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	sovereignty	sovereignty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	By	by	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
35	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
36	hoped	hope	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	42	obl	_	_
41	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	revealed	reveal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
43	Beyond	Beyond	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	_
44	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	52	cc	_	_
49	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	’s	'	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nsubj	_	_
51	heaving	heave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	52	amod	_	_
52	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grave** | past · perfect |  | no characters |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sorrow** | infinitive |  | no splendour stol’n |  | that wide eye |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **aver** | present | the legend |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **repose** | participle | the legend *not said here* |  |  | some far seat of sovereignty |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on seat=Location |
| 5 | **hope** | past | others |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 6 | **reveal** | past |  | Beyond | Scota |  |  | sea cloud *obj*; alone *property* | tree rules |
| 7 | **heave** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **field** |  | ocean ’s |  |  |  |  |  | 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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