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title: Thence lifting soon a countenance glad yet tearful, She spake; ‘Your… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thence lifting soon a countenance glad yet tearful, She spake; ‘Your knighthood stands consummate now! Who acts: knighthood. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 34

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Thence lifting soon a countenance glad yet tearful, She spake; ‘Your knighthood stands consummate now!

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**Who acts:** knighthood · **What happens:** lift, stand, consummate · **To what, where:** 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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knighthood), 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:pg78491:4:34
# text = Thence lifting soon a countenance glad yet tearful, She spake; ‘Your knighthood stands consummate now!
1	Thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	lifting	lift	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
3	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	2	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
7	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	tearful	tearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	compound	_	_
11	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	knighthood	knighthood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	stands	stand	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
17	consummate	consummate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | gerund |  | a countenance |  |  |  | soon, thence *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent countenance=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | present | Your knighthood |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **consummate** | present |  |  |  |  | now |  | 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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