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title: He spake, and softly to the Druid stept And pressed that Druid’s han… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: He spake, and softly to the Druid stept And pressed that Druid’s hand to lips and eyes; Then o’er the old man’s heart compassion crept, With flatter’d pride, which oft to good and wise Makes way, thus veiled, in weak, unwary hour; And o’er the North he waved his wand of power. Who acts: heart compas
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 51

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He spake, and softly to the Druid stept And pressed that Druid’s hand to lips and eyes; Then o’er the old man’s heart compassion crept, With flatter’d pride, which oft to good and wise Makes way, thus veiled, in weak, unwary hour; And o’er the North he waved his wand of power.

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**Who acts:** heart compassion, North · **What happens:** press, creep, ', veil, wave · **To what, where:** Makes, wand, spake

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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 (heart compassion, North), 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:pg78491:7:51
# text = He spake, and softly to the Druid stept And pressed that Druid’s hand to lips and eyes; Then o’er the old man’s heart compassion crept, With flatter’d pride, which oft to good and wise Makes way, thus veiled, in weak, unwary hour; And o’er the North he waved his wand of power.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
5	softly	softly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Druid	Druid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	stept	stept	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
10	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	pressed	press	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
12	that	that	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	Druid	Druid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	22	advmod	_	_
22	o’er	o'	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	compassion	compassion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	With	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	flatter	flat	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	34	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’d	'	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
34	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	conj	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	obl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	conj	_	_
42	Makes	Make	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	_
43	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
46	veiled	veil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
48	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
49	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
51	unwary	unwary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	55	punct	_	_
54	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	o’er	o'	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	2	conj	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	59	nsubj	_	_
58	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	59	nsubj	_	_
59	waved	wave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	55	advcl	_	_
60	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	61	nmod:poss	_	_
61	wand	wand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obj	_	_
62	of	of	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **press** | past |  |  |  |  |  | that Druid's hand; to lips and eyes | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **creep** | past | the old man's heart compassion | Makes  way |  |  |  | with flatter ’d pride | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with pride=Theme |
| 3 | **'** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **veil** | participle |  | Makes  way *not said here* |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **wave** | past | the North | hand's wand of power |  |  |  | hand *nsubj* | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wand=Patient |

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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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