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title: That eye, though young and sweet with such clear light, Had marshall… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: That eye, though young and sweet with such clear light, Had marshalled many a death-strewn battle-field; Had watched the meeting tides of many a fight; Taught many a proud, inviolate fort to yield. Who acts: Had, many, many fight. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 25

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That eye, though young and sweet with such clear light, Had marshalled many a death-strewn battle-field; Had watched the meeting tides of many a fight; Taught many a proud, inviolate fort to yield.

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**Who acts:** Had, many, many fight · **What happens:** marshall, watch, teach, fort, yield, tide · **To what, where:** eye, meeting tides

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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 (Had, many, many fight), 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:pg78491:4:25
# text = That eye, though young and sweet with such clear light, Had marshalled many a death-strewn battle-field; Had watched the meeting tides of many a fight; Taught many a proud, inviolate fort to yield.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
13	Had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	marshalled	marshall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	obj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
17	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	strewn	strewn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	Had	Had	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	tides	tide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
34	Taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	parataxis	_	_
35	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	nsubj	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
37	proud	proud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
39	inviolate	inviolate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	fort	fort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	parataxis	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	yield	yield	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marshall** | past · perfect · passive |  | that eye |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **watch** | past | Had | the meeting tides of a many fight |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tide=Theme |
| 3 | **teach** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fort** |  | many |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **yield** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **tide** |  | a many fight |  |  |  |  |  | nom tide «event 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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