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title: Lo, as a band of lilies, white and tall Beneath a breeze of morning… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lo, as a band of lilies, white and tall Beneath a breeze of morning bend their head High held in virgin state majestical, So meekly cowered those swans in holy dread Hearing that promised Tailkenn’s blissful name: For they long since had heard in dream the same. Who acts: head, holy dread Hearing, n
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 73

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Lo, as a band of lilies, white and tall Beneath a breeze of morning bend their head High held in virgin state majestical, So meekly cowered those swans in holy dread Hearing that promised Tailkenn’s blissful name: For they long since had heard in dream the same.

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**Who acts:** head, holy dread Hearing, names, morning, Tailkenn · **What happens:** bend, hold, cower, promise, hear, breeze · **To what, where:** virgin state, swans, holy dread Hearing, blissful name, same, dream

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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 (head, holy dread Hearing, names, morning), 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:pg78491:8:73
# text = Lo, as a band of lilies, white and tall Beneath a breeze of morning bend their head High held in virgin state majestical, So meekly cowered those swans in holy dread Hearing that promised Tailkenn’s blissful name: For they long since had heard in dream the same.
1	Lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	17	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	lilies	lily	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	Beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	breeze	breeze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	bend	bend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	High	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
21	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	ccomp	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	virgin	virgin	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	majestical	majestical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	So	so	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
28	meekly	meekly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	cowered	cower	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
30	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	31	det	_	_
31	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	dread	dread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	Hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
38	Tailkenn	Tailkenn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’s	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	blissful	blissful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	_
43	For	for	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
44	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	48	nsubj	_	_
45	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	48	advmod	_	_
46	since	since	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
47	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	aux	_	_
48	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend** | present |  |  |  |  |  | as a band of lilies | tree rules |
| 2 | **hold** | past | breezes's head |  |  | virgin state |  | high *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in state=Location |
| 3 | **cower** | participle |  | that swans |  | holy dread Hearing |  | meekly *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | holy dread Hearing | Tailkenn's blissful name |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 5 | **hear** | past · perfect | names *= name* | the same |  | dream |  | long, since *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer same=Stimulus |
| 6 | **breeze** |  | morning |  |  |  |  |  | nom breeze «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
| 7 | **name** |  | Tailkenn |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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