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title: ‘Forth to the Red-Branch Mansion let him speed, And there with Deird… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Forth to the Red-Branch Mansion let him speed, And there with Deirdré secret converse hold, And learn if yet upon her lives indeed The glory of that beauty hers of old.’ Who acts: Branch Mansion, king, beauty. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Au
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 74

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‘Forth to the Red-Branch Mansion let him speed, And there with Deirdré secret converse hold, And learn if yet upon her lives indeed The glory of that beauty hers of old.’

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**Who acts:** Branch Mansion, king, beauty · **What happens:** let, speed, learn, glory · **To what, where:** king, glory

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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 (Branch Mansion, king, beauty), 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:pg78491:6:75
# text = ‘Forth to the Red-Branch Mansion let him speed, And there with Deirdré secret converse hold, And learn if yet upon her lives indeed The glory of that beauty hers of old.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
3	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Branch	Branch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Mansion	Mansion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	speed	speed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
13	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
14	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	22	expl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	Deirdré	Deirdré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	converse	converse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
25	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	_
28	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
29	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
33	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	conj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | past | the Branch Mansion | king |  |  |  | forth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **speed** | infinitive | king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **learn** | infinitive | the Branch Mansion *not said here* | the glory of that beauty  beauty |  | there |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glory=Topic |
| 4 | **glory** |  | that beauty  beauty |  |  |  |  |  | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=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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