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title: That haunt, in memory glassed, Childhood perpetual o’er their lives… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: That haunt, in memory glassed, Childhood perpetual o’er their lives distilled: And, coast what shore they might, green vale and plain Bred whiter flocks, men said, more golden grain. Who acts: haunt. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Ver
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 83

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That haunt, in memory glassed, Childhood perpetual o’er their lives distilled: And, coast what shore they might, green vale and plain Bred whiter flocks, men said, more golden grain.

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**Who acts:** haunt · **What happens:** glass, distil, plain, breed, say · **To what, where:** memory, lives, Bred whiter flocks, golden grain · **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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (haunt), 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:pg78491:9:84
# text = That haunt, in memory glassed, Childhood perpetual o’er their lives distilled: And, coast what shore they might, green vale and plain Bred whiter flocks, men said, more golden grain.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	haunt	haunt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	glassed	glass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	Childhood	Childhood	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	perpetual	perpetual	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
10	o’er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
13	distilled	distil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
18	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	19	det	_	_
19	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	vale	vale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	plain	plain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
27	Bred	breed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
28	whiter	white	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	29	amod	_	_
29	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
31	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
32	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	35	advmod	_	_
35	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glass** | participle |  | memory *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **distil** | participle |  | haunt's lives *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **plain** | present | that haunt and Childhood perpetual o'er haunt's lives and coast and green vale *not said here* | Bred whiter flocks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **breed** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | that haunt and Childhood perpetual o'er haunt's lives and coast and green vale | golden grain |  |  |  | men *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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