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title: In thee the autumnal berry Sent forth its flash from reddening brake… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In thee the autumnal berry Sent forth its flash from reddening brake and bush Like scoff from hard old lip of beldam merry! Who acts: autumnal berry, berry. 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 tre
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 96

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In thee the autumnal berry Sent forth its flash from reddening brake and bush Like scoff from hard old lip of beldam merry!

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**Who acts:** autumnal berry, berry · **What happens:** send, redden, flash · **To what, where:** flash, brake, hard old lip, thee

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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 (autumnal berry, berry), 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:pg78491:5:96
# text = In thee the autumnal berry Sent forth its flash from reddening brake and bush Like scoff from hard old lip of beldam merry!
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	autumnal	autumnal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	berry	berry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	Sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	flash	flash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	reddening	redden	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	brake	brake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	bush	bush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	scoff	scoff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	lip	lip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	beldam	beldam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	merry	merry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | participle | the autumnal berry *not said here* | berry's flash |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flash=Theme |
| 2 | **redden** | gerund | the autumnal berry *not said here* | brake and bush |  | hard old lip of beldam merry |  | like scoff | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent brake=Patient |
| 4 | **flash** |  | berry |  |  |  |  |  | nom flash «event intransitive»: poss=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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