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title: Lo, a ray Of her sweet countenance lives in theirs this day!’ — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lo, a ray Of her sweet countenance lives in theirs this day!’ Who acts: ray. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 78

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Lo, a ray Of her sweet countenance lives in theirs this day!’

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**Who acts:** ray · **What happens:** live, ray · **To what, where:** sweet countenance

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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 (ray), 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:pg78491:3:78
# text = Lo, a ray Of her sweet countenance lives in theirs this day!’
1	Lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ray	ray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	theirs	their	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | present | a ray of ray's sweet countenance |  |  |  | day | in gifts *= gift* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in their=Location |
| 2 | **ray** |  |  | ray's sweet countenance |  |  |  |  | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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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