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title: She told how, later, by that northern tide A blush of causeless sham… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: She told how, later, by that northern tide A blush of causeless shame her cheek had stained; And how, heart-grieved at fancied wrong, she died, Where wrong was none; and how her husband plained Year after year, while she, at Scota’s feet, Rested revered where earth and ocean meet. Who acts: Nor, nor
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 58

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She told how, later, by that northern tide A blush of causeless shame her cheek had stained; And how, heart-grieved at fancied wrong, she died, Where wrong was none; and how her husband plained Year after year, while she, at Scota’s feet, Rested revered where earth and ocean meet.

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**Who acts:** Nor, northern tide, none, husband, earth, causeless shame · **What happens:** tell, stain, grieve, fancy, die, be · **To what, where:** blush, Year, feet · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Nor, northern tide, none, husband), 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:pg78491:3:58
# text = She told how, later, by that northern tide A blush of causeless shame her cheek had stained; And how, heart-grieved at fancied wrong, she died, Where wrong was none; and how her husband plained Year after year, while she, at Scota’s feet, Rested revered where earth and ocean meet.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
9	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	_
11	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	blush	blush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	causeless	causeless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	stained	stain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
21	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
22	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	grieved	grieve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	fancied	fancy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	conj	_	_
29	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	35	advmod	_	_
35	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	parataxis	_	_
36	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	conj	_	_
37	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	43	advmod	_	_
41	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	plained	plain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
44	Year	Year	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
45	after	after	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
48	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
49	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	at	at	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	Scota	Scota	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	’s	's	PART	POS	_	52	case	_	_
54	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
56	Rested	Rested	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	nsubj	_	_
57	revered	revere	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
58	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	62	advmod	_	_
59	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	62	nsubj	_	_
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
61	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	conj	_	_
62	meet	meet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	57	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | Nor |  |  |  |  | that northern tide *ccomp*; late *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **stain** | past · perfect · passive | that northern tide *not said here* | a blush of causeless shame |  |  |  | Nor's cheek *nsubj:pass* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination |
| 3 | **grieve** | participle | Nor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | heart *compound* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **fancy** | participle | Nor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | wrong *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **die** | past | Nor |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **be** | past | none |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **plain** | past | Nor's husband | Year |  |  | year |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **revere** | past | Nor |  |  | Scota's feet |  | Rested *nsubj* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **meet** | present | earth and ocean |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 10 | **blush** |  | causeless shame |  |  |  |  |  | nom blush «state intransitive»: of=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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