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title: And still whate’er she heard of good and pure Within the virgin’s me… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And still whate’er she heard of good and pure Within the virgin’s memory held its place Like names on tree-stems graved that aye endure: Of questionable things survived no trace: They passed, like letters written in a rill That upward laughs to heaven, re-virgined still. Who acts: whate’er, aye, que
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 63

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And still whate’er she heard of good and pure Within the virgin’s memory held its place Like names on tree-stems graved that aye endure: Of questionable things survived no trace: They passed, like letters written in a rill That upward laughs to heaven, re-virgined still.

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**Who acts:** whate’er, aye, questionable things, things, upward · **What happens:** hear, hold, grave, endure, survive, pass · **To what, where:** whate’er, place, trace, letters, rill

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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 (whate’er, aye, questionable things, things), 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:pg78491:3:63
# text = And still whate’er she heard of good and pure Within the virgin’s memory held its place Like names on tree-stems graved that aye endure: Of questionable things survived no trace: They passed, like letters written in a rill That upward laughs to heaven, re-virgined still.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	whate’er	whate'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	pure	pure	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	Within	within	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	virgin	virgin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
15	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
16	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	stems	stem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
24	graved	grave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	aye	aye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	endure	endure	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
29	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	questionable	questionable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	survived	survive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
33	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	34	det	_	_
34	trace	trace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
36	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	like	like	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	letters	letter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
41	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	acl	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	rill	rill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	46	det	_	_
46	upward	upward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	laughs	laugh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	acl:relcl	_	_
48	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
51	re-virgined	re-virgin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	conj	_	_
52	still	still	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | whate’er *= whate'er* | whate’er *not said here* |  |  |  | of good; within the virgin's memory | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whate'er=Stimulus |
| 2 | **hold** | past | whate’er | memory's place |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 3 | **grave** | past |  |  |  |  |  | like names on tree stems | tree rules |
| 4 | **endure** | present | aye |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **survive** | past | questionable things | no trace |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme trace=Circumstance |
| 6 | **pass** | past | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  | like letters | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **write** | participle |  | letters *not said here* |  | a rill |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in rill=Destination |
| 8 | **laugh** | present | that upward | a rill *not said here* |  |  |  | to heaven | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rill=Theme |
| 9 | **re-virgin** | participle | things *= thing* *not said here* |  |  |  | still |  | 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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