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title: Last, like that bird which fan-like spreads her plumes For pride, to… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Last, like that bird which fan-like spreads her plumes For pride, to Conor’s palace she returned, And found him seated in presageful glooms; And cried as though some reptile shape she spurned, ‘Woe, woe; for Deirdré’s brightness is gone by;-- Brown moth is she that once was butterfly!’ Who acts: Con
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 71

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Last, like that bird which fan-like spreads her plumes For pride, to Conor’s palace she returned, And found him seated in presageful glooms; And cried as though some reptile shape she spurned, ‘Woe, woe; for Deirdré’s brightness is gone by;-- Brown moth is she that once was butterfly!’

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**Who acts:** Conor, speed · **What happens:** spread, return, find, seat, cry, spurn · **To what, where:** plumes, palace, speed, presageful glooms, Woe, reptile shape

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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 (Conor, speed), 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:pg78491:6:72
# text = Last, like that bird which fan-like spreads her plumes For pride, to Conor’s palace she returned, And found him seated in presageful glooms; And cried as though some reptile shape she spurned, ‘Woe, woe; for Deirdré’s brightness is gone by;-- Brown moth is she that once was butterfly!’
1	Last	last	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	fan	fan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	spreads	spread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	plumes	plume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	For	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	Conor	Conor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	xcomp	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	presageful	presageful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	glooms	gloom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
31	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
33	as	as	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
35	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	37	det	_	_
36	reptile	reptile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	advcl	_	_
38	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	spurned	spurn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	42	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	Woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	51	punct	_	_
46	for	for	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	Deirdré	Deirdré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	49	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	’s	's	PART	POS	_	47	case	_	_
49	brightness	brightness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
50	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	cop	_	_
51	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	62	advcl	_	_
52	by	by	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
55	Brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	moth	moth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
57	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	62	cop	_	_
58	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	62	nsubj	_	_
59	that	that	ADV	RB	_	60	advmod	_	_
60	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	62	advmod	_	_
61	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	62	cop	_	_
62	butterfly	butterfly	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
63	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	62	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | present |  | maid's plumes |  |  |  | like that bird; for pride; Conor's palace *parataxis*; last *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plume=Theme |
| 2 | **return** | past | Conor | Conor's palace *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme |
| 3 | **find** | past |  | speed |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme |
| 4 | **seat** | participle | speed *not said here* |  |  | presageful glooms |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in gloom=Location |
| 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | Woe and woe |  |  |  | some reptile shape *advcl* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **spurn** | past | Conor | some reptile shape *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | present | Conor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Deirdré's brightness; by Brown moth; go *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **is a** | present | Conor | butterfly |  |  |  | once *property* | 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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