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title: ‘Glenorchy, O Glenorchy! sweet in thee To hear the cuckoo’s note, th… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Glenorchy, O Glenorchy! sweet in thee To hear the cuckoo’s note, that glad new-comer; And sweet o’er Masan’s sands to watch the sea Sleep on unwakened half the long, blue summer! Who acts: thee, that, sweet o’er, cuckoo. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 98

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‘Glenorchy, O Glenorchy! sweet in thee To hear the cuckoo’s note, that glad new-comer; And sweet o’er Masan’s sands to watch the sea Sleep on unwakened half the long, blue summer!

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**Who acts:** thee, that, sweet o’er, cuckoo · **What happens:** hear, comer, sand, watch, unwaken, note · **To what, where:** note, sea Sleep

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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 (thee, that, sweet o’er, cuckoo), 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:pg78491:5:98
# text = ‘Glenorchy, O Glenorchy! sweet in thee To hear the cuckoo’s note, that glad new-comer; And sweet o’er Masan’s sands to watch the sea Sleep on unwakened half the long, blue summer!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Glenorchy	Glenorchy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	O	O	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Glenorchy	Glenorchy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
9	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	11	nsubj	_	_
10	To	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cuckoo	cuckoo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	note	note	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	nsubj	_	_
18	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	comer	comer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
24	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	o’er	o'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	Masan	Masan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’s	's	PART	POS	_	26	case	_	_
28	sands	sand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	Sleep	sleep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	35	mark	_	_
35	unwakened	unwaken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	advcl	_	_
36	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	41	det:predet	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
38	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
40	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | to-infinitive | thee | the cuckoo's note |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus |
| 2 | **comer** |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sand** |  | sweet o’er |  |  |  |  | Masan *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **watch** | to-infinitive |  | the sea Sleep |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Theme |
| 5 | **unwaken** | participle |  |  |  |  | summer |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **note** |  | the cuckoo |  |  |  |  |  | nom note «communication transitive»: 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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