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title: Basking like blue sky She met her husband’s guest full lovingly. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Basking like blue sky She met her husband’s guest full lovingly. Who acts: cloud. 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 every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 81

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Basking like blue sky She met her husband’s guest full lovingly.

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**Who acts:** cloud · **What happens:** bask, meet · **To what, where:** guest

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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 (cloud), 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:pg78491:5:81
# text = Basking like blue sky She met her husband’s guest full lovingly.
1	Basking	bask	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
2	like	like	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	husband	husband	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’s	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	guest	guest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
12	lovingly	lovingly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bask** | gerund | cloud *not said here* |  |  |  |  | like blue sky | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **meet** | past | cloud | cloud's husband's guest |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guest=Co-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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