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title: ‘O Love, not thus upon that causeway old We stood that day, chauntin… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘O Love, not thus upon that causeway old We stood that day, chaunting our nuptials high! Who acts: We. 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 of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 28

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‘O Love, not thus upon that causeway old We stood that day, chaunting our nuptials high!

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**Who acts:** We · **What happens:** stand, chaunt · **To what, where:** nuptials, Love

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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 (We), 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:pg78491:7:28
# text = ‘O Love, not thus upon that causeway old We stood that day, chaunting our nuptials high!
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	Love	Love	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
6	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
9	causeway	causeway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
11	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	chaunting	chaunt	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
17	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	nuptials	nuptial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | We |  |  |  | day |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **chaunt** | gerund | We *not said here* | our nuptials |  |  |  |  | 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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