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title: And God, Who of least things has tenderest thought, Looked down on t… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And God, Who of least things has tenderest thought, Looked down on them benignly from on high, And bade that bitter brine to enter not Their scars, unhealed as yet, lest they should die; And nearer sent their choicest food full oft, And clothed their wings with plumage fine and soft. Who acts: that,
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 72

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And God, Who of least things has tenderest thought, Looked down on them benignly from on high, And bade that bitter brine to enter not Their scars, unhealed as yet, lest they should die; And nearer sent their choicest food full oft, And clothed their wings with plumage fine and soft.

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**Who acts:** that, scars, things · **What happens:** think, look down, brine, not enter, unheal, die · **To what, where:** God, scars, choicest food, wings

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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 (that, scars, things), 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:pg78491:9:73
# text = And God, Who of least things has tenderest thought, Looked down on them benignly from on high, And bade that bitter brine to enter not Their scars, unhealed as yet, lest they should die; And nearer sent their choicest food full oft, And clothed their wings with plumage fine and soft.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
2	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	Who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	amod	_	_
7	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	tenderest	tender	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	obj	_	_
10	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
13	down	down	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
16	benignly	benignly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	ccomp	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	brine	brine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	enter	enter	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	acl	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
29	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	scars	scar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	unhealed	unheal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
33	as	as	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	39	aux	_	_
39	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	43	amod	_	_
43	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
44	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
45	choicest	choice	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	46	amod	_	_
46	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
47	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
48	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	clothed	clothe	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	conj	_	_
52	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	wings	wing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obj	_	_
54	with	with	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	plumage	plumage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	_
56	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	conj	_	_
57	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
58	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present · perfect · passive |  | God |  |  |  | bade *ccomp* | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **look down** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | on things *= thing*; benignly *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on they=Theme |
| 3 | **brine** |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **enter** | to-infinitive |  | things's scars |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme scar=Destination |
| 5 | **unheal** | participle |  | things's scars *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **die** | should | scars *= scar* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 7 | **send** | past |  | scars's choicest food |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme |
| 8 | **clothe** | past |  | scars's wings |  |  |  | with plumage | vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient |
| 9 | **scar** |  | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  |  | nom scar «state 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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