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title: To whom replied the old man tremulously, ‘Would God that ne’er had c… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: To whom replied the old man tremulously, ‘Would God that ne’er had come that night of old When shriek on shriek confused the revelry, And I that new-born Infant’s fate foretold; For ne’er in ninety years deceived was I Or by man’s art, or wiles of Destiny! Who acts: God, shriek, I, new born Infant. 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 46

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To whom replied the old man tremulously, ‘Would God that ne’er had come that night of old When shriek on shriek confused the revelry, And I that new-born Infant’s fate foretold; For ne’er in ninety years deceived was I Or by man’s art, or wiles of Destiny!

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**Who acts:** God, shriek, I, new born Infant · **What happens:** reply, come, confuse, bear, foretell, deceive · **To what, where:** old man, revelry, wiles, I

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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 (God, shriek, I, new born Infant), 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:pg78491:7:46
# text = To whom replied the old man tremulously, ‘Would God that ne’er had come that night of old When shriek on shriek confused the revelry, And I that new-born Infant’s fate foretold; For ne’er in ninety years deceived was I Or by man’s art, or wiles of Destiny!
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	nsubj	_	_
3	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	tremulously	tremulously	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	Would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
13	ne’er	ne'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nmod	_	_
20	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	24	advmod	_	_
21	shriek	shriek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	shriek	shriek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	confused	confuse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	revelry	revelry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
28	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
29	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
31	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
34	Infant	infant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’s	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
37	foretold	foretell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
39	For	for	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	ne’er	ne'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	ninety	ninety	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nummod	_	_
43	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	nmod	_	_
44	deceived	deceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
45	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	46	cop	_	_
46	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	conj	_	_
47	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
48	by	by	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	’s	's	PART	POS	_	49	case	_	_
51	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
53	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	wiles	wile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	obl	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	Destiny	Destiny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  | the old man |  |  |  | God *obl*; whom *nsubj*; tremulously *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic |
| 2 | **come** | past · perfect | God |  |  |  | night | ne’er *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **confuse** | past | shriek on shriek | the revelry |  |  |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revelry=Patient |
| 4 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **foretell** | participle | I |  |  |  |  | new born Infant's fate *nsubj* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **deceive** | past |  | wiles of Destiny |  |  |  | for ne’er in ninety years | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is a** | past |  | I |  |  |  | man's art *conj* | tree rules |
| 8 | **fate** |  | new born Infant |  |  |  |  |  | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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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