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title: ‘O beauteous Land, oft on thy heathery bed, Wearied with chase, upon… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘O beauteous Land, oft on thy heathery bed, Wearied with chase, upon my sleepless heart My Naisi laid at noon his sleeping head; And therefore thine I am; and dear thou art. Who acts: Naisi. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Openin
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 93

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‘O beauteous Land, oft on thy heathery bed, Wearied with chase, upon my sleepless heart My Naisi laid at noon his sleeping head; And therefore thine I am; and dear thou art.

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**Who acts:** Naisi · **What happens:** weary, lay, be · **To what, where:** sleepless heart, thine

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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), 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:pg78491:5:93
# text = ‘O beauteous Land, oft on thy heathery bed, Wearied with chase, upon my sleepless heart My Naisi laid at noon his sleeping head; And therefore thine I am; and dear thou art.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	of	ADP	IN	Abbr=Yes	4	case	_	_
3	beauteous	beauteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	Land	Land	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	heathery	heathery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Wearied	weary	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	chase	chase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	sleepless	sleepless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	Naisi	Naisi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
29	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	conj	_	_
32	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
37	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	38	nsubj	_	_
38	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weary** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with chase; upon my sleepless heart | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **lay** | past | My Naisi | my sleepless heart *not said here* |  |  | noon |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Result |
| 3 | **is a** | present |  | thine |  |  |  | therefore *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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