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title: For still, beside the spring her pitcher watching, The maid would si… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: For still, beside the spring her pitcher watching, The maid would sing of Naisi’s strength and fleetness, Ofttimes in turn on breeze of evening catching Some shepherd’s song of Deirdré’s truth and sweetness: And still they ended, each; ‘Ill deed, King Conor, That banished such! Who acts: pitcher, ma
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 82

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For still, beside the spring her pitcher watching, The maid would sing of Naisi’s strength and fleetness, Ofttimes in turn on breeze of evening catching Some shepherd’s song of Deirdré’s truth and sweetness: And still they ended, each; ‘Ill deed, King Conor, That banished such!

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**Who acts:** pitcher, maid, Ofttimes, brothers, Ill deed, evening · **What happens:** watch, sing, catch, end, banish, breeze · **To what, where:** song, each

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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 (pitcher, maid, Ofttimes, brothers), 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:pg78491:4:83
# text = For still, beside the spring her pitcher watching, The maid would sing of Naisi’s strength and fleetness, Ofttimes in turn on breeze of evening catching Some shepherd’s song of Deirdré’s truth and sweetness: And still they ended, each; ‘Ill deed, King Conor, That banished such!
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	still	still	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	sing	sing	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	parataxis	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	Naisi	Naisi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	fleetness	fleetness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Ofttimes	ofttime	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	catching	catch	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
30	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	31	det	_	_
31	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	Deirdré	Deirdré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’s	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	sweetness	sweetness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
41	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
42	still	still	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
43	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	ended	end	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
46	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
48	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	Ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	appos	_	_
53	Conor	Conor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	52	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
55	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	56	nsubj	_	_
56	banished	banish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	conj	_	_
57	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	56	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | gerund | shore's pitcher |  |  |  | spring |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sing** *speech: express* | would | the maid |  |  |  |  | of Naisi's strength and fleetness and Ofttimes in turn on breeze of evening | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 3 | **catch** | gerund | Ofttimes in turn on breeze of evening *not said here* | some shepherd's song of Deirdré's truth and sweetness |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent song=Theme |
| 4 | **end** | past | brothers *= brother* | each |  |  | still |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 5 | **banish** | past | Ill deed |  |  |  |  | That *nsubj*; such *property* | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **breeze** |  | evening |  |  |  |  |  | nom breeze «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
| 7 | **sing** |  | Deirdré's truth and sweetness |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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