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title: Long in silent thought The old man stood, then murmured in low tone,… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Long in silent thought The old man stood, then murmured in low tone, ‘I loved those children better than mine own!’ Who acts: old man, I, mine. 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 81

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Long in silent thought The old man stood, then murmured in low tone, ‘I loved those children better than mine own!’

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**Who acts:** old man, I, mine · **What happens:** think, stand, murmur, love, own · **To what, where:** low tone, children · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (old man, I, mine), 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:pg78491:8:81
# text = Long in silent thought The old man stood, then murmured in low tone, ‘I loved those children better than mine own!’
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	advcl	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obl	_	_
4	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	murmured	murmur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	tone	tone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	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	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
19	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	better	well	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	18	advmod	_	_
22	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
23	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	own	own	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the old man |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **murmur** *speech: other* | past | the old man *not said here* |  |  | low tone | then |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tone=Location |
| 4 | **love** | past | I | that children |  |  |  | well *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus |
| 5 | **own** | present | mine |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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