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title: We laughed to mark it, while far off we heard Ainli with Ardan sing… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: We laughed to mark it, while far off we heard Ainli with Ardan sing as bird with bird. Who acts: We. 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 97

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We laughed to mark it, while far off we heard Ainli with Ardan sing as bird with bird.

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** laugh, mark, hear · **To what, where:** berry, Ainli

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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 (We), 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:pg78491:5:97
# text = We laughed to mark it, while far off we heard Ainli with Ardan sing as bird with bird.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	laughed	laugh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	mark	mark	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
9	off	off	ADP	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	Ainli	Ainli	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Ardan	Ardan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	sing	sing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **laugh** | past | We |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mark** | to-infinitive | We *not said here* | berry |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination |
| 3 | **hear** | past | we | Ainli |  |  |  | with Ardan sing; as bird with bird; far *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer ainli=Stimulus |

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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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