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title: Yet, when within those lovers’ eyes they saw Wild mirth alone, and b… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet, when within those lovers’ eyes they saw Wild mirth alone, and blank astonishment, They deemed the thing divine; and, though with awe, Their spirits on the high adventure bent, And council took, and with one mind decreed That self-same night o’er Uladh’s bound to speed. Who acts: lovers, council
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 49

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Yet, when within those lovers’ eyes they saw Wild mirth alone, and blank astonishment, They deemed the thing divine; and, though with awe, Their spirits on the high adventure bent, And council took, and with one mind decreed That self-same night o’er Uladh’s bound to speed.

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**Who acts:** lovers, council, That · **What happens:** see, deem, bend, take, decree, o'er · **To what, where:** Wild mirth, thing divine, high adventure, bound

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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 (lovers, council, That), 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:pg78491:4:49
# text = Yet, when within those lovers’ eyes they saw Wild mirth alone, and blank astonishment, They deemed the thing divine; and, though with awe, Their spirits on the high adventure bent, And council took, and with one mind decreed That self-same night o’er Uladh’s bound to speed.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
4	within	within	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	lovers	lover	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	Wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	mirth	mirth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	blank	blank	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	deemed	deem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	divine	divine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	though	though	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	awe	awe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	conj	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
37	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
39	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
40	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
44	with	with	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	_
46	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
47	decreed	decree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
48	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	53	nsubj	_	_
49	self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	49	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
52	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	o’er	o'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	ccomp	_	_
54	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	’s	's	PART	POS	_	54	case	_	_
56	bound	bound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	_
57	to	to	PART	TO	_	58	mark	_	_
58	speed	speed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	56	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | lovers *= lover* | Wild mirth |  |  |  | within that lovers's eyes; blank astonishment *obl*; awe and lovers's spirits on the high adventure *conj*; alone *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mirth=Stimulus |
| 2 | **deem** | past | lovers *= lover* | the thing divine |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent divine=Attribute |
| 3 | **bend** | participle |  | the high adventure *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **take** | past | council |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **decree** | past | council *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with one mind | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **o'er** |  | That | Uladh's bound |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **speed** | to-infinitive | That *not said here* | Uladh's bound *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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