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title: In neither face that hour was fear: She saw in his a sadness infinit… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In neither face that hour was fear: She saw in his a sadness infinite: He saw, in hers, content, and princely cheer. Who acts: face, Naisi. 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 pragmat
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 26

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In neither face that hour was fear: She saw in his a sadness infinite: He saw, in hers, content, and princely cheer.

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**Who acts:** face, Naisi · **What happens:** be, see · **To what, where:** hour fear, face

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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 (face, Naisi), 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:pg78491:7:26
# text = In neither face that hour was fear: She saw in his a sadness infinite: He saw, in hers, content, and princely cheer.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	3	det	_	_
3	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
5	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	infinite	infinite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	hers	her	PRON	PRP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	content	content	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	princely	princely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	cheer	cheer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | neither face *not said here* | hour fear |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **see** | past | face |  |  | neither face |  | in Naisi's sadness infinite | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **see** | past | Naisi | face |  |  |  | content *obl*; princely cheer *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer her=Stimulus |

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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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