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title: ‘Till now thou hast not found a woman meet In all thy land the royal… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Till now thou hast not found a woman meet In all thy land the royal throne to share; Behold, the loveliest lady and most sweet Of all the earth is near, and thou not ’ware! Who acts: woman, earth, thou. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 64

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‘Till now thou hast not found a woman meet In all thy land the royal throne to share; Behold, the loveliest lady and most sweet Of all the earth is near, and thou not ’ware!

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**Who acts:** woman, earth, thou · **What happens:** not find, meet, share, be, not ware · **To what, where:** thou, land · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (woman, earth, thou), 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:pg78491:4:65
# text = ‘Till now thou hast not found a woman meet In all thy land the royal throne to share; Behold, the loveliest lady and most sweet Of all the earth is near, and thou not ’ware!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Till	till	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	obl	_	_
4	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	ccomp	_	_
11	In	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
13	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
21	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	25	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	loveliest	lovely	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	amod	_	_
25	lady	lady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	28	amod	_	_
28	sweet	sweet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
29	Of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	34	mark	_	_
30	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	34	det:predet	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
33	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
34	near	near	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	40	nsubj	_	_
38	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	40	advmod	_	_
39	’	'	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	ware	ware	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **find** | present · perfect · passive |  | thou |  |  |  | the loveliest lady and most sweet *obl* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | infinitive | a woman |  |  | thy land |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **share** | to-infinitive | a woman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | present | the earth |  |  |  |  | near *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **ware** |  | thou |  |  |  |  | ’ *nmod:poss* | 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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