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title: Whom Naisi hearing, made reply, ‘Ride on:’ And Deirdré raised to hea… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Whom Naisi hearing, made reply, ‘Ride on:’ And Deirdré raised to heaven her heaven-sweet face, And made this song; for, as in girlhood, all Her musings, dark or bright, grew musical. Who acts: Ride. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 22

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Whom Naisi hearing, made reply, ‘Ride on:’ And Deirdré raised to heaven her heaven-sweet face, And made this song; for, as in girlhood, all Her musings, dark or bright, grew musical.

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**Who acts:** Ride · **What happens:** hearing, make, raise, grow, muse · **To what, where:** sweet face, heaven, song

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ride), 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:pg78491:6:23
# text = Whom Naisi hearing, made reply, ‘Ride on:’ And Deirdré raised to heaven her heaven-sweet face, And made this song; for, as in girlhood, all Her musings, dark or bright, grew musical.
1	Whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Naisi	Naisi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	Ride	ride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	’	'	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	Deirdré	Deirdré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
19	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
29	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	girlhood	girlhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	37	det:predet	_	_
36	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
37	musings	musing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
39	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	parataxis	_	_
40	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
44	musical	musical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hearing** |  |  |  |  |  |  | Whom *nsubj*; made reply *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **raise** | past | Ride on ’ and Deirdré | Ride's sweet face |  | heaven |  | girlhood and Ride's musings *parataxis* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Theme to heaven=Destination |
| 4 | **make** | past | Ride on ’ and Deirdré *not said here* | this song |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset song=Product |
| 5 | **grow** | past | Ride on ’ and Deirdré *not said here* |  |  |  |  | musical *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **muse** |  | Ride |  |  |  |  |  | nom musing «cognition 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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