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title: There once a shepherd, Aibhric, high of race, Marked them far off, a… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: There once a shepherd, Aibhric, high of race, Marked them far off, and marking them so loved That to the ocean’s verge he rushed apace With hands outspread. Who acts: shepherd, marking, apace. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Open
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 5

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There once a shepherd, Aibhric, high of race, Marked them far off, and marking them so loved That to the ocean’s verge he rushed apace With hands outspread.

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**Who acts:** shepherd, marking, apace · **What happens:** mark, love, rush, outspread · **To what, where:** lands, That, verge

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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 (shepherd, marking, apace), 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:pg78491:10:5
# text = There once a shepherd, Aibhric, high of race, Marked them far off, and marking them so loved That to the ocean’s verge he rushed apace With hands outspread.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	12	expl	_	_
2	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	12	advmod	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Aibhric	Aibhric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
15	off	off	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	marking	mark	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	csubj	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	so	so	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
22	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	verge	verge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	apace	apace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
31	With	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
33	outspread	outspread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | past | a shepherd | lands *= land* |  | there |  | off, once *property* | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination |
| 2 | **mark** | gerund |  | lands *= land* |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Destination |
| 3 | **love** | past | marking | That |  |  |  | to the ocean's verge | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
| 4 | **rush** | past | shepherd | the ocean's verge *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent verge=Patient clause=Result |
| 5 | **outspread** | participle | apace with hands |  |  |  |  |  | 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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