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title: One night, when Naisi to his rest had passed, Deirdré, long lingerin… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: One night, when Naisi to his rest had passed, Deirdré, long lingering at the bridal door, Her eyes on Ainli and on Ardan cast, Great eyes with tears unused all misted o’er, And took their hands, and spake, in low, soft tone, ‘To you my Naisi’s weal is as your own! Who acts: Naisi weal. A sentence of
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 8

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One night, when Naisi to his rest had passed, Deirdré, long lingering at the bridal door, Her eyes on Ainli and on Ardan cast, Great eyes with tears unused all misted o’er, And took their hands, and spake, in low, soft tone, ‘To you my Naisi’s weal is as your own!

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**Who acts:** Naisi weal · **What happens:** pass, unus, mist, take, be · **To what, where:** Naisi, tears, o’er, hands, low soft tone

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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 (Naisi weal), 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:pg78491:5:8
# text = One night, when Naisi to his rest had passed, Deirdré, long lingering at the bridal door, Her eyes on Ainli and on Ardan cast, Great eyes with tears unused all misted o’er, And took their hands, and spake, in low, soft tone, ‘To you my Naisi’s weal is as your own!
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
5	Naisi	Naisi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Deirdré	Deirdré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	lingering	lingering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	bridal	bridal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	door	door	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Ainli	Ainli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	Ardan	Ardan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	cast	cast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
34	unused	unus	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
35	all	all	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	misted	mist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	advcl	_	_
37	o’er	o'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
41	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
47	in	in	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
48	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
50	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	63	punct	_	_
53	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	63	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	To	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	59	nmod	_	_
56	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	Naisi	Naisi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	’s	's	PART	POS	_	57	case	_	_
59	weal	weal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	63	nsubj	_	_
60	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	63	cop	_	_
61	as	as	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	63	nmod:poss	_	_
63	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past · perfect · passive |  | Naisi to Naisi's rest |  |  | night | Deirdré *obl*; Deirdré's eyes on Ainli and Ardan cast and Great eyes with tears *obl* | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
| 2 | **unus** | participle |  | tears *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mist** | participle |  | o’er |  |  |  | all *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | past |  | tears's hands |  | low soft tone |  | spake *obl* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Value in tone=Location |
| 5 | **is** | present | Naisi weal to you |  |  |  |  | your *nmod:poss*; own *property* | tree rules |

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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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