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title: Deem ye that kinglier cheer, Or palace more majestic under sun, Glad… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Deem ye that kinglier cheer, Or palace more majestic under sun, Gladdens mankind than those that greet us here?’ Who acts: Gladdens mankind. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragma
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 14

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Deem ye that kinglier cheer, Or palace more majestic under sun, Gladdens mankind than those that greet us here?’

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**Who acts:** Gladdens mankind · **What happens:** greet · **To what, where:** us, Deem

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gladdens mankind), 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:pg78491:5:14
# text = Deem ye that kinglier cheer, Or palace more majestic under sun, Gladdens mankind than those that greet us here?’
1	Deem	Deem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	flat	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	kinglier	kingly	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	5	amod	_	_
5	cheer	cheer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	10	advmod	_	_
10	majestic	majestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
11	under	under	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	Gladdens	Gladden	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	compound	_	_
15	mankind	mankind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
16	than	than	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	15	nmod	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	greet	greet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **greet** *speech: greet* | present | Gladdens mankind than those |  | us | here |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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