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title: She, the warrior nearing, Held forth both hands, and gazed upon him… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: She, the warrior nearing, Held forth both hands, and gazed upon him mute; And last, in love’s high truth--and truth is best-- Made answer; ‘Thine!’ Who acts: passion, truth. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 4, with i
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 32

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She, the warrior nearing, Held forth both hands, and gazed upon him mute; And last, in love’s high truth--and truth is best-- Made answer; ‘Thine!’

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**Who acts:** passion, truth · **What happens:** near, hold, gaze, be, make · **To what, where:** Thine, hands, mute, answer

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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 (passion, truth), 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:pg78491:4:32
# text = She, the warrior nearing, Held forth both hands, and gazed upon him mute; And last, in love’s high truth--and truth is best-- Made answer; ‘Thine!’
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	nearing	near	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	mute	mute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	'	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	Made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	parataxis	_	_
33	answer	answer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
35	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	Thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **near** | gerund | passion | Thine |  |  |  | the warrior *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | participle |  | both hands |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **gaze** | past |  | mute |  |  |  | upon warrior | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | truth |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | participle |  | answer |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset answer=Product |

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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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