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title: Love’s wild, yet vestal flame Caught them once more as on that first… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Love’s wild, yet vestal flame Caught them once more as on that first of May; And three glad wedded years became a day. Who acts: vestal flame, years. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and t
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 94

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Love’s wild, yet vestal flame Caught them once more as on that first of May; And three glad wedded years became a day.

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**Who acts:** vestal flame, years · **What happens:** catch, wed, become · **To what, where:** tides

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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 (vestal flame, years), 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:pg78491:4:95
# text = Love’s wild, yet vestal flame Caught them once more as on that first of May; And three glad wedded years became a day.
1	Love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’s	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	vestal	vestal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	Caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	11	advmod	_	_
11	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	8	advmod	_	_
12	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	first	first	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	parataxis	_	_
22	wedded	wed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
24	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | vestal flame | tides *= tide* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **wed** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **become** | past | years |  |  |  | day |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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