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title: Ah then to Naisi, and to Deirdré then Like fire the gladness of the… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah then to Naisi, and to Deirdré then Like fire the gladness of the spring-tide came: That causeway old they seemed to tread again, Sang the same song! Who acts: gladness, tides. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 4, w
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 93

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Ah then to Naisi, and to Deirdré then Like fire the gladness of the spring-tide came: That causeway old they seemed to tread again, Sang the same song!

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**Who acts:** gladness, tides · **What happens:** come, seem, tread · **To what, where:** old, Sang

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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 (gladness, tides), 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:pg78491:4:94
# text = Ah then to Naisi, and to Deirdré then Like fire the gladness of the spring-tide came: That causeway old they seemed to tread again, Sang the same song!
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	19	discourse	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Naisi	Naisi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Deirdré	Deirdré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
10	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	gladness	gladness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
19	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
21	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	nsubj	_	_
22	causeway	causeway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl:unmarked	_	_
23	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	obl	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	tread	tread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	again	again	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Sang	Sang	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the gladness of the spring tide | old  That  causeway |  |  | then; then | like fire | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | past | tides *= tide* |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **tread** | to-infinitive | tides *= tide* *not said here* | Sang |  |  | again |  | vn run-51.3.2 «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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