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title: Thus Deirdré sang, and silent stood a space; Then spake once more: ‘… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus Deirdré sang, and silent stood a space; Then spake once more: ‘I come, my Love, my Lord!’ Who acts: Deirdré, silent, I, my. 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 ever
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 83

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Thus Deirdré sang, and silent stood a space; Then spake once more: ‘I come, my Love, my Lord!’

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**Who acts:** Deirdré, silent, I, my · **What happens:** sing, stand, come, love · **To what, where:** spake, space

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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 (Deirdré, silent, I, my), 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:pg78491:7:83
# text = Thus Deirdré sang, and silent stood a space; Then spake once more: ‘I come, my Love, my Lord!’
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Deirdré	Deirdré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
13	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	14	advmod	_	_
14	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	Love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	vocative	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	Lord	Lord	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Deirdré | spake |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **stand** | past | silent | a space |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer space=Stimulus |
| 3 | **come** | present | I |  |  |  |  | my Love *vocative* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **love** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling 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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