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title: Obedient then, once more they soared on high; Next morn on Erin’s we… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Obedient then, once more they soared on high; Next morn on Erin’s western coast descended, While sunrise flashed from misty isles far seen, Now gold, now flecked with streaks of luminous green. Who acts: Obedient. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 2

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Obedient then, once more they soared on high; Next morn on Erin’s western coast descended, While sunrise flashed from misty isles far seen, Now gold, now flecked with streaks of luminous green.

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**Who acts:** Obedient · **What happens:** soar, descend, flash, see, fleck · **To what, where:** high Next morn, western coast, sunrise, misty isles

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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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Obedient), 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:pg78491:10:2
# text = Obedient then, once more they soared on high; Next morn on Erin’s western coast descended, While sunrise flashed from misty isles far seen, Now gold, now flecked with streaks of luminous green.
1	Obedient	Obedient	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	5	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	soared	soar	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
11	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	morn	morn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
18	descended	descend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
21	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	flashed	flash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	misty	misty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	isles	isle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
27	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	30	advmod	_	_
30	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	advmod	_	_
33	flecked	fleck	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	streaks	streak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	luminous	luminous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **soar** | past | Obedient |  |  | high Next morn on Erin's western coast | then | they *nsubj* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on morn=Trajectory |
| 2 | **descend** | participle |  | Erin's western coast *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **flash** | participle |  | sunrise *not said here* |  | misty isles |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **see** | participle · passive |  | sunrise |  |  |  | gold *obj*; far *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fleck** | participle |  |  |  |  | now | with streaks of luminous green | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with streak=Theme |

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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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