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title: ‘Whilome in purple clad we sat elate: The warriors watched us at the… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Whilome in purple clad we sat elate: The warriors watched us at their nut-brown mead: But now we roam the waters desolate, Or breast the languid beds of waving weed: Our food was then fine bread; our drink was wine: This day on sea-plants sour we peak and pine. Who acts: Whilome, we, warriors, wate
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 80

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‘Whilome in purple clad we sat elate: The warriors watched us at their nut-brown mead: But now we roam the waters desolate, Or breast the languid beds of waving weed: Our food was then fine bread; our drink was wine: This day on sea-plants sour we peak and pine.

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**Who acts:** Whilome, we, warriors, waters, food, drink · **What happens:** clad, elate, watch, roam, desolate, breast · **To what, where:** us, brown mead, languid beds, fine bread, wine, we

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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 (Whilome, we, warriors, waters), 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:pg78491:9:81
# text = ‘Whilome in purple clad we sat elate: The warriors watched us at their nut-brown mead: But now we roam the waters desolate, Or breast the languid beds of waving weed: Our food was then fine bread; our drink was wine: This day on sea-plants sour we peak and pine.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Whilome	Whilome	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	purple	purple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	clad	clad	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
7	sat	sat	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	elate	elate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	watched	watch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
16	nut	nut	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	mead	mead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
21	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
23	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	roam	roam	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	desolate	desolate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	breast	breast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	languid	languid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	beds	bed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	waving	waving	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	weed	weed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
38	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
41	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	42	advmod	_	_
42	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	48	punct	_	_
45	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	drink	drink	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
47	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	48	cop	_	_
48	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	56	punct	_	_
50	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	51	det	_	_
51	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl:unmarked	_	_
52	on	on	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
53	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	53	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	plants	plant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	nmod	_	_
56	sour	sour	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	48	conj	_	_
57	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	56	obj	_	_
58	peak	peak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obj	_	_
59	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
60	pine	pine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clad** | past | Whilome in purple |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **elate** |  | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **watch** | past | the warriors | us |  | warriors's brown mead |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 4 | **roam** | present | we |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **desolate** | infinitive | the waters |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **breast** | infinitive | we *not said here* | the languid beds of waving weed |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Theme |
| 7 | **is a** | past | Our food | fine bread and wine |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **is a** | past | our drink | wine |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **sour** | present | our drink *not said here* | we |  |  | day | peak and pine *obj* | 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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