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title: Alone the Three And Deirdré, spite of spells, illusion-proof, Saw st… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Alone the Three And Deirdré, spite of spells, illusion-proof, Saw still green field, and heaven’s unclouded roof. Who acts: Three, heaven ’s. 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 pragm
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 57

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Alone the Three And Deirdré, spite of spells, illusion-proof, Saw still green field, and heaven’s unclouded roof.

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**Who acts:** Three, heaven ’s · **What happens:** see, uncloud, roof, spite · **To what, where:** green field, spells

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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 (Three, heaven ’s), 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:pg78491:7:57
# text = Alone the Three And Deirdré, spite of spells, illusion-proof, Saw still green field, and heaven’s unclouded roof.
1	Alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Three	Three	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	Deirdré	Deirdré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	spite	spite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	illusion	illusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
15	Saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	still	still	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	'	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
23	unclouded	uncloud	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the Three and Deirdré | green field |  |  |  | spite of spells and illusion proof *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer field=Stimulus |
| 2 | **uncloud** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **roof** |  | heaven ’s |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **spite** |  |  | spells and illusion proof |  |  |  |  | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=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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