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title: The boy made answer none; but instant bowed, And judgment gave so fu… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The boy made answer none; but instant bowed, And judgment gave so full, so just, so clear, A shout rang upward from the astonished crowd, ‘Worthy of kingship thou!’ Who acts: boy, instant, judgment, shout. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 6

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The boy made answer none; but instant bowed, And judgment gave so full, so just, so clear, A shout rang upward from the astonished crowd, ‘Worthy of kingship thou!’

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**Who acts:** boy, instant, judgment, shout · **What happens:** make, answer, bow, give, ring · **To what, where:** none, astonished crowd

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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 (boy, instant, judgment, shout), 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:pg78491:3:6
# text = The boy made answer none; but instant bowed, And judgment gave so full, so just, so clear, A shout rang upward from the astonished crowd, ‘Worthy of kingship thou!’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
5	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	bowed	bow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
18	just	just	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	shout	shout	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
26	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	crowd	crowd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	Worthy	Worthy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	kingship	kingship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the boy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the boy *not said here* | none |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent none=Eventuality |
| 3 | **bow** | past | instant |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **give** | past | judgment |  |  |  |  |  | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **ring** | past | a shout |  |  | the astonished crowd |  | upward *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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