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title: ‘One time by far Loch Etive--’twas in jest-- My Naisi kissed a sweet… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘One time by far Loch Etive--’twas in jest-- My Naisi kissed a sweet-eyed Alban maid: I sought my death! my bark from crest to crest I dashed, too deeply wounded to upbraid! Who acts: Naisi, I, my. 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 24

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‘One time by far Loch Etive--’twas in jest-- My Naisi kissed a sweet-eyed Alban maid: I sought my death! my bark from crest to crest I dashed, too deeply wounded to upbraid!

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**Who acts:** Naisi, I, my · **What happens:** kiss, seek, dash, upbraid, die · **To what, where:** eyed Alban maid, death, crest

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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 (Naisi, I, my), 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:pg78491:6:25
# text = ‘One time by far Loch Etive--’twas in jest-- My Naisi kissed a sweet-eyed Alban maid: I sought my death! my bark from crest to crest I dashed, too deeply wounded to upbraid!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	Loch	Loch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	Etive	Etive	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	'	SYM	SYM	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	appos	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	jest	jest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	Naisi	Naisi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	kissed	kiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
18	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	eyed	eyed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	Alban	Alban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
24	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
26	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
29	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	crest	crest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	crest	crest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
36	dashed	dash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	too	too	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	deeply	deeply	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	wounded	wounded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	_
41	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
42	upbraid	upbraid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kiss** | past | My Naisi | a eyed Alban maid |  |  | time |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **seek** | past | I | my death |  | crest to crest |  | my bark *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **dash** | past | I | crest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crest=Patient |
| 4 | **upbraid** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **die** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «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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