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title: Wak’ning she answered, anguished yet serene: — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wak’ning she answered, anguished yet serene: Who acts: lit. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 6, 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 6, sentence 28

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Wak’ning she answered, anguished yet serene:

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**Who acts:** lit · **What happens:** wak'n, answer, serene

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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 (lit), 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:pg78491:6:29
# text = Wak’ning she answered, anguished yet serene:
1	Wak’ning	wak'n	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	anguished	anguish	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	serene	serene	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wak'n** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | lit |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **serene** | past |  |  |  |  | yet |  | tree rules |

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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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