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title: Vouchsafing no reply Silent from both he turned; and, like a God Spu… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Vouchsafing no reply Silent from both he turned; and, like a God Spurning some death-doomed city, homeward strode. Who acts: Illan, God. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 19

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Vouchsafing no reply Silent from both he turned; and, like a God Spurning some death-doomed city, homeward strode.

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**Who acts:** Illan, God · **What happens:** vouchsafe, turn, spurn, doom · **To what, where:** reply, doomed city

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Illan, God), 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:pg78491:7:19
# text = Vouchsafing no reply Silent from both he turned; and, like a God Spurning some death-doomed city, homeward strode.
1	Vouchsafing	vouchsafe	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	csubj	_	_
2	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	Silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
5	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
6	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc:preconj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	Spurning	spurn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
17	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	doomed	doom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	homeward	homeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	strode	strode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vouchsafe** | gerund |  | no reply |  |  |  | silent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | past | Illan |  |  |  |  | a God *conj* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **spurn** | gerund | a God *not said here* | some doomed city and homeward strode |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **doom** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | death *compound* | 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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