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title: Remembering oft this spectre of his youth King Lir would sit, a frow… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Remembering oft this spectre of his youth King Lir would sit, a frown upon his brow: Then came the queen with words of peace and truth; ‘Mourn they that sinned! Who acts: spectre, queen, queens. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Op
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 14

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Remembering oft this spectre of his youth King Lir would sit, a frown upon his brow: Then came the queen with words of peace and truth; ‘Mourn they that sinned!

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**Who acts:** spectre, queen, queens · **What happens:** remember, sit, come, mourn, sin, word · **To what, where:** frown, peace

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spectre, queen, queens), 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:pg78491:8:14
# text = Remembering oft this spectre of his youth King Lir would sit, a frown upon his brow: Then came the queen with words of peace and truth; ‘Mourn they that sinned!
1	Remembering	remember	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
2	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	spectre	spectre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Lir	lir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	sit	sit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	frown	frown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	truth	truth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
30	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	Mourn	mourn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
32	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
33	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	_
34	sinned	sin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remember** | gerund | this spectre of spectre's youth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | oft *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sit** | would | this spectre of spectre's youth | a frown upon spectre's brow |  |  |  | King Lir *nsubj* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come** | past | the queen |  |  |  | then | with words of peace and truth | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **mourn** | infinitive | this spectre of spectre's youth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **sin** | past | queens *= queen* |  |  |  |  | that *nsubj* | vn rebel-71.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **word** |  |  | peace and truth |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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