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title: Her brow was bright with thought; her hand, raised high, Above its d… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Her brow was bright with thought; her hand, raised high, Above its destined prize hung hoveringly. Who acts: brow, destined prize. 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 pragmatics of ev
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 55

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Her brow was bright with thought; her hand, raised high, Above its destined prize hung hoveringly.

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**Who acts:** brow, destined prize · **What happens:** be, raise, destine, hang · **To what, where:** hand

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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 (brow, destined prize), 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:pg78491:5:55
# text = Her brow was bright with thought; her hand, raised high, Above its destined prize hung hoveringly.
1	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
12	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	Above	above	ADP	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	destined	destine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	hoveringly	hoveringly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Deirdré's brow |  |  |  |  | with thought; bright *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **raise** | participle · passive |  | Deirdré's hand |  |  |  | high *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **destine** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hang** | past | hand's destined prize |  |  |  |  | hoveringly *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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