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title: On the third The king led forth his daughter--o’er her glowed A dim… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: On the third The king led forth his daughter--o’er her glowed A dim veil jewel-tissued--with this word: ‘Behold thy wife! Who acts: king, Bove. 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 dependency tree and the pra
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 39

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On the third The king led forth his daughter--o’er her glowed A dim veil jewel-tissued--with this word: ‘Behold thy wife!

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**Who acts:** king, Bove · **What happens:** lead, glow, tissue · **To what, where:** daughter, third, dim veil

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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 (king, Bove), 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:pg78491:8:39
# text = On the third The king led forth his daughter--o’er her glowed A dim veil jewel-tissued--with this word: ‘Behold thy wife!
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	o’er	o'er	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	glowed	glow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	jewel	jewel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	tissued	tissue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
25	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	28	discourse	_	_
27	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | past | the king | King's daughter |  | the third |  | forth *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme on third=Destination |
| 2 | **glow** | past | Bove | a dim veil |  |  |  | with this word; thy wife *parataxis* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent veil=Theme |
| 3 | **tissue** | participle |  | a dim veil *not said here* |  |  |  | jewel *compound* | tree rules |

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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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