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title: Yet near his court they dwelt; and once it chanced A palace churl wh… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Yet near his court they dwelt; and once it chanced A palace churl while o’er the forest boughs New leaved, the earliest beam of morning glanced, Made way, with missives sent, to Naisi’s house, And on by dusky doors, though timorous, crept, And found at last that room where Naisi slept. Who acts: cou
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 59

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Yet near his court they dwelt; and once it chanced A palace churl while o’er the forest boughs New leaved, the earliest beam of morning glanced, Made way, with missives sent, to Naisi’s house, And on by dusky doors, though timorous, crept, And found at last that room where Naisi slept.

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**Who acts:** court, ne’er, room · **What happens:** dwell, chance, glance, make, send, creep · **To what, where:** court, palace churl, forest boughs, way, missives, house

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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 (court, ne’er, room), 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:pg78491:4:60
# text = Yet near his court they dwelt; and once it chanced A palace churl while o’er the forest boughs New leaved, the earliest beam of morning glanced, Made way, with missives sent, to Naisi’s house, And on by dusky doors, though timorous, crept, And found at last that room where Naisi slept.
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	near	near	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	once	once	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	chanced	chance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
12	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	churl	churl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	o’er	o'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	ccomp	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
20	New	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	leaved	leaved	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	beam	beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	glanced	glance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
31	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	missives	missive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	_
35	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	Naisi	Naisi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’s	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
42	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
43	on	on	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	by	by	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	dusky	dusky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	doors	door	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	49	mark	_	_
49	timorous	timorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
51	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	51	advcl	_	_
55	at	at	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	xcomp	_	_
57	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	61	mark	_	_
58	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nsubj	_	_
59	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	61	advmod	_	_
60	Naisi	Naisi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	61	nsubj	_	_
61	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dwell** | past | court |  |  | king's court |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near court=Location |
| 2 | **chance** | past | ne’er *= ne'er* | a palace churl |  |  |  | o’er and the forest boughs and the earliest beam of morning *ccomp* | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent churl=Pivot |
| 3 | **glance** | participle |  | the forest boughs and the earliest beam of morning *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  | way |  |  |  | with missives | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **send** | participle |  | missives *not said here* |  | Naisi's house |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to house=Destination |
| 6 | **creep** | past | court *not said here* |  |  | dusky doors |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on door=Trajectory |
| 7 | **find** | past | court *not said here* |  |  |  |  | last *property* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **sleep** | past | room |  |  |  |  | Naisi *nsubj* | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **beam** |  |  | morning |  |  |  |  | nom beam «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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