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title: A stately terrace clustered round with towers, And jubilant with mus… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: A stately terrace clustered round with towers, And jubilant with music’s merry din, Beaten by resonant waves, and bright with flowers: There--but apart--she stood that wrought the sin, Like one that broods on one black thought alone Seen o’er a world of happy hopes o’erthrown. Who acts: stately terr
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 19

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A stately terrace clustered round with towers, And jubilant with music’s merry din, Beaten by resonant waves, and bright with flowers: There--but apart--she stood that wrought the sin, Like one that broods on one black thought alone Seen o’er a world of happy hopes o’erthrown.

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**Who acts:** stately terrace, that, music · **What happens:** cluster, beat, stand, wrought, brood, o'erthrown · **To what, where:** stately terrace, sin, Seen, happy hopes

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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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stately terrace, that, music), 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:pg78491:9:19
# text = A stately terrace clustered round with towers, And jubilant with music’s merry din, Beaten by resonant waves, and bright with flowers: There--but apart--she stood that wrought the sin, Like one that broods on one black thought alone Seen o’er a world of happy hopes o’erthrown.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	stately	stately	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	terrace	terrace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
4	clustered	cluster	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	round	round	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	jubilant	jubilant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	merry	merry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	din	din	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	resonant	resonant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
27	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	33	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
33	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	nsubj	_	_
35	wrought	wrought	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	parataxis	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	sin	sin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	obl	_	_
41	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	42	nsubj	_	_
42	broods	brood	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	40	acl:relcl	_	_
43	on	on	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
44	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	46	nummod	_	_
45	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
47	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
48	Seen	Seen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	obl:unmarked	_	_
49	o’er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	51	det	_	_
51	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
53	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	hopes	hope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nmod	_	_
55	o’erthrown	o'erthrown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	54	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	33	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cluster** | participle |  | a stately terrace and jubilant with music's merry din *not said here* |  |  |  | with towers; round *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with tower=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **beat** | participle |  | a stately terrace and jubilant with music's merry din *not said here* |  |  |  | resonant waves *obl:agent* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stand** | past | a stately terrace and jubilant with music's merry din |  |  | there |  | terrace *nsubj*; apart *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wrought** | past | that | the sin |  |  |  | like one | tree rules |
| 5 | **brood** | present |  | Seen |  |  |  | o'er a world of happy hopes; on one black thought | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on thought=Topic |
| 6 | **o'erthrown** | participle |  | happy hopes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **din** |  | music |  |  |  |  |  | nom din «event intransitive»: 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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