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title: Unseen by him she wiped away her tear; While from the black boughs f… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Unseen by him she wiped away her tear; While from the black boughs fell a poison-dew; And Fate her net more closely round them drew. Who acts: Three, black boughs, Fate. 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 d
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 39

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Unseen by him she wiped away her tear; While from the black boughs fell a poison-dew; And Fate her net more closely round them drew.

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**Who acts:** Three, black boughs, Fate · **What happens:** wipe away, fall, draw · **To what, where:** tear, poison dew

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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 (Three, black boughs, Fate), 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:pg78491:6:40
# text = Unseen by him she wiped away her tear; While from the black boughs fell a poison-dew; And Fate her net more closely round them drew.
1	Unseen	unseen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	advcl	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obl	_	_
4	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	wiped	wipe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	away	away	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	tear	tear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
17	poison	poison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
21	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	Fate	Fate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
23	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	net	net	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
25	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
26	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
27	round	round	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	_
29	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wipe away** | past | Three | Three's tear |  |  |  | away *property* | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme |
| 2 | **fall** | past | the black boughs | a poison dew |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient dew=Result |
| 3 | **draw** | past | Fate |  |  |  |  | closely *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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