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title: At last she spake; ‘Self-questioning thoughts repel, Nor grieve at t… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: At last she spake; ‘Self-questioning thoughts repel, Nor grieve at trust misplaced; for all is well! Who acts: questioning thoughts, Nor, all. 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 prag
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 27

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At last she spake; ‘Self-questioning thoughts repel, Nor grieve at trust misplaced; for all is well!

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**Who acts:** questioning thoughts, Nor, all · **What happens:** question, repel, grieve, misplace, be · **To what, where:** last she spake, trust

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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 (questioning thoughts, Nor, all), 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:pg78491:7:27
# text = At last she spake; ‘Self-questioning thoughts repel, Nor grieve at trust misplaced; for all is well!
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	compound	_	_
4	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	questioning	question	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	amod	_	_
10	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	repel	repel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Nor	Nor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	grieve	grieve	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	trust	trust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	misplaced	misplace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nsubj	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **question** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | Self *compound* | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **repel** | present | questioning thoughts |  |  | last she spake |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **grieve** | present | Nor |  |  | trust |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **misplace** | participle |  | trust *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is** | present | all |  |  |  |  | well *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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