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title: Swiftly she walked: she came where stood the Three; Then from her wh… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Swiftly she walked: she came where stood the Three; Then from her white lips rushed her wrong like flame; ‘Dishonoured wife!’ she cried, ‘with me, with me, Though not the treason, lives for aye the shame! Who acts: bride, white lips, Dishonoured wife, treason. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 71

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Swiftly she walked: she came where stood the Three; Then from her white lips rushed her wrong like flame; ‘Dishonoured wife!’ she cried, ‘with me, with me, Though not the treason, lives for aye the shame!

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**Who acts:** bride, white lips, Dishonoured wife, treason · **What happens:** walk, come, stand, rush, cry, live · **To what, where:** Three, wrong

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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 (bride, white lips, Dishonoured wife, treason), 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:pg78491:4:72
# text = Swiftly she walked: she came where stood the Three; Then from her white lips rushed her wrong like flame; ‘Dishonoured wife!’ she cried, ‘with me, with me, Though not the treason, lives for aye the shame!
1	Swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
5	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	8	advmod	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Three	Three	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
12	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obj	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
23	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Dishonoured	dishonoured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
38	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
39	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	41	advmod	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	treason	treason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
43	lives	live	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	conj	_	_
44	for	for	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	aye	aye	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **walk** | past | bride |  |  |  |  | swiftly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | past | bride |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | past | bride *not said here* | the Three |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer three=Stimulus |
| 4 | **rush** | past | bride's white lips | bride's wrong |  |  | then | like flame | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wrong=Trajectory |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Dishonoured wife |  |  |  |  | with me; with me; bride *nsubj* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with i=Theme |
| 6 | **live** | present | the treason |  |  |  |  | for the shame | vn exist-47.1-1 «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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