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title: Deirdré besides, on Naisi’s music musing-- That strain far-famed she… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Deirdré besides, on Naisi’s music musing-- That strain far-famed she once had heard in dream-- Through some strange craft of Nature’s sweet infusing Unconscious copied it. Who acts: Deirdré, music, That, sweet. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Au
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 10

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Deirdré besides, on Naisi’s music musing-- That strain far-famed she once had heard in dream-- Through some strange craft of Nature’s sweet infusing Unconscious copied it.

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**Who acts:** Deirdré, music, That, sweet, Unconscious · **What happens:** beside, muse, strain, fame, hear, infuse · **To what, where:** music, dream, sweet

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Deirdré, music, That, sweet), 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:pg78491:4:10
# text = Deirdré besides, on Naisi’s music musing-- That strain far-famed she once had heard in dream-- Through some strange craft of Nature’s sweet infusing Unconscious copied it.
1	Deirdré	Deirdré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	besides	beside	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	Naisi	Naisi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’s	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	musing	muse	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	nsubj	_	_
11	strain	strain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
12	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	famed	fame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	ccomp	_	_
15	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	advmod	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	parataxis	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
24	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	craft	craft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	Nature	Nature	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’s	's	PART	POS	_	27	case	_	_
29	sweet	sweet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	infusing	infuse	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
31	Unconscious	Unconscious	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	copied	copy	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	ccomp	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beside** | present | Deirdré |  |  | Naisi's music |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **muse** | gerund | Naisi's music *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **strain** | present | That |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fame** | participle | That *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **hear** | past · perfect | Deirdré |  |  | dream |  | some strange craft of Nature's sweet *conj*; once *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **infuse** | gerund | Nature's sweet *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **copy** | past | Unconscious | sweet |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 8 | **craft** |  |  | Nature's sweet |  |  |  |  | nom craft «act 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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