--- title: Thy great heart, Flinging from off it, like a nightmare dream, A swa… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Thy great heart, Flinging from off it, like a nightmare dream, A sway ignobler, chose the better part, Throning the lofty spirit in lofty place: It brought thee bliss and bale, but nothing base! Who acts: great heart, heart. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great heart, heart), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78491:4:58 # text = Thy great heart, Flinging from off it, like a nightmare dream, A sway ignobler, chose the better part, Throning the lofty spirit in lofty place: It brought thee bliss and bale, but nothing base! 1 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 nmod:poss _ _ 2 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 5 Flinging fling VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 3 acl _ _ 6 from from ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 off off ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 like like ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 nightmare nightmare NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 compound _ _ 13 dream dream NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 sway sway NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 17 ignobler ignoble ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 16 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 19 chose choose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 better good ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 22 amod _ _ 22 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 Throning throne VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 19 advcl _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 26 lofty lofty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 spirit spirit NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 lofty lofty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 : : PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 32 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ _ 34 thee thou PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 33 obj _ _ 35 bliss bliss NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 bale bale NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 but but CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 nothing nothing PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Neg 41 compound _ _ 41 base base NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ! ! PUNCT . _ 19 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **fling** | gerund | Thy great heart and a nightmare dream and a sway *not said here* | | | heart | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from it=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **choose** | past | Thy great heart and a nightmare dream and a sway | the better part | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | | 3 | **throne** | gerund | Thy great heart and a nightmare dream and a sway *not said here* | the lofty spirit | | lofty place | | | tree rules | | 4 | **bring** | past | heart | thee | | | | bliss and bale *obj*; nothing base *conj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent thou=Destination bliss=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/4/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/4/58/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/4/)