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title: Nowhere, methinks, thou better lov’st to dwell Than in the hearts of… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nowhere, methinks, thou better lov’st to dwell Than in the hearts of innocents that still, By dangerous love untempted, work Love’s will! Who acts: thou, innocents. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 8, with its depend
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 24

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Nowhere, methinks, thou better lov’st to dwell Than in the hearts of innocents that still, By dangerous love untempted, work Love’s will!

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**Who acts:** thou, innocents · **What happens:** lov'st, dwell, untempt, work · **To what, where:** Than, hearts, dangerous love, methinks

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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 (thou, innocents), 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:pg78491:8:24
# text = Nowhere, methinks, thou better lov’st to dwell Than in the hearts of innocents that still, By dangerous love untempted, work Love’s will!
1	Nowhere	nowhere	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	methinks	methink	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nsubj	_	_
6	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	lov’st	lov'st	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	dwell	dwell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	_
10	Than	Than	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	innocents	innocent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
17	still	still	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	By	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	untempted	untempt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	work	work	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	acl:relcl	_	_
25	Love	Love	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lov'st** |  | thou |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **dwell** | to-infinitive |  | Than |  | the hearts of innocents |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme than=Location |
| 3 | **untempt** | participle |  | dangerous love *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **work** | infinitive | innocents |  |  |  | still | dangerous love *nsubj* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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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