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title: Thus lived they prosperous mid that storm of war, In victory glad, n… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus lived they prosperous mid that storm of war, In victory glad, not downcast in defeat: Three winter months when fortune pressed them sore Within a western isle they made retreat, The nearest of those rock-bound Hebrides Set mid the crystal splendour of the seas. Who acts: anon, fortune, Hebrides
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 86

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Thus lived they prosperous mid that storm of war, In victory glad, not downcast in defeat: Three winter months when fortune pressed them sore Within a western isle they made retreat, The nearest of those rock-bound Hebrides Set mid the crystal splendour of the seas.

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**Who acts:** anon, fortune, Hebrides, war · **What happens:** live, press, make, mi, storm · **To what, where:** anon, retreat, crystal splendour

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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 (anon, fortune, Hebrides, war), 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:pg78491:4:87
# text = Thus lived they prosperous mid that storm of war, In victory glad, not downcast in defeat: Three winter months when fortune pressed them sore Within a western isle they made retreat, The nearest of those rock-bound Hebrides Set mid the crystal splendour of the seas.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
4	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	mid	mid	X	AFX	_	7	compound	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	In	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
13	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	downcast	downcast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	defeat	defeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
21	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
24	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	pressed	press	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
28	Within	within	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	isle	isle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	acl:relcl	_	_
34	retreat	retreat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	nearest	near	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	25	advcl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	42	det	_	_
40	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	bound	bound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
43	Hebrides	Hebrides	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nsubj	_	_
44	Set	Set	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	flat	_	_
45	mid	mi	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	parataxis	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
47	crystal	crystal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	splendour	splendour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | anon |  |  |  | month | that prosperous mid storm of war *conj*; thus *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **press** | past | fortune | anon |  |  |  | within a western isle; sore *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past | anon | retreat |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset retreat=Product |
| 4 | **mi** | past | Hebrides | the crystal splendour of the seas |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **storm** |  | war |  |  |  |  |  | nom storm «phenomenon 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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