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title: When dawned the third May morn The Four, while slowly rose the kindl… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: When dawned the third May morn The Four, while slowly rose the kindling mist Showing the first white on the earliest thorn, Heard music o’er the waters. Who acts: kindling mist. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 10, w
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 55

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When dawned the third May morn The Four, while slowly rose the kindling mist Showing the first white on the earliest thorn, Heard music o’er the waters.

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**Who acts:** kindling mist · **What happens:** dawn, rise, show, hear · **To what, where:** third morn, kindling mist, first white, earliest thorn

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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 (kindling mist), 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:pg78491:10:55
# text = When dawned the third May morn The Four, while slowly rose the kindling mist Showing the first white on the earliest thorn, Heard music o’er the waters.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	dawned	dawn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
5	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	_
6	morn	morn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
11	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	kindling	kindling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	Showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	19	amod	_	_
19	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	Heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
27	o’er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dawn** | participle |  | the third morn  May  the Four |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location morn=Theme |
| 2 | **rise** | past |  | the kindling mist |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mist=Theme |
| 3 | **show** | gerund | the kindling mist *not said here* | the first white |  | the earliest thorn |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent white=Recipient |
| 4 | **hear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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