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title: It was that season when the spirit of joy Runs million-footed forth… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: It was that season when the spirit of joy Runs million-footed forth through earth and air; When the hale shepherd grows once more the boy; The girl-like youth is prompt to do and dare; When womanhood looks softer than its wont; The star shines whiter on the infant’s front. Who acts: valour, hale she
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 90

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It was that season when the spirit of joy Runs million-footed forth through earth and air; When the hale shepherd grows once more the boy; The girl-like youth is prompt to do and dare; When womanhood looks softer than its wont; The star shines whiter on the infant’s front.

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**Who acts:** valour, hale shepherd, like youth, womanhood, star · **What happens:** be, grow, do, dare, look, shine · **To what, where:** season, boy, front

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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 (valour, hale shepherd, like youth, womanhood), 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:pg78491:4:91
# text = It was that season when the spirit of joy Runs million-footed forth through earth and air; When the hale shepherd grows once more the boy; The girl-like youth is prompt to do and dare; When womanhood looks softer than its wont; The star shines whiter on the infant’s front.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	season	season	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	Runs	run	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
11	million	million	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	footed	footed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
14	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	hale	hale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
25	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	26	advmod	_	_
26	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
30	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	girl	girl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
36	prompt	prompt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	parataxis	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	xcomp	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	dare	dare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
42	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	44	mark	_	_
43	womanhood	womanhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
44	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	parataxis	_	_
45	softer	soft	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	44	xcomp	_	_
46	than	than	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	wont	wont	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	52	punct	_	_
50	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nsubj	_	_
52	shines	shine	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
53	whiter	white	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	52	xcomp	_	_
54	on	on	ADP	IN	_	58	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	infant	infant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	’s	's	PART	POS	_	56	case	_	_
58	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | valour | season |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **grow** | present | the hale shepherd | the boy |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boy=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | present | the like youth |  |  |  |  | prompt *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **do** | to-infinitive | the like youth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **dare** | infinitive | the like youth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **look** | present | womanhood |  |  |  |  | soft *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 7 | **shine** | present | the star |  |  | the infant's front |  | white *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on front=Location |

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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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