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title: Saint Patrick stretched above the wave his hand And thus he spake--a… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Saint Patrick stretched above the wave his hand And thus he spake--and wind and wave were stilled-- ‘Children of Lir, re-tread your native land, For now your long sea-penance is fulfilled!’ Who acts: Saint. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 64

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Saint Patrick stretched above the wave his hand And thus he spake--and wind and wave were stilled-- ‘Children of Lir, re-tread your native land, For now your long sea-penance is fulfilled!’

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**Who acts:** Saint · **What happens:** stretch, speak, wave, still, re-tread, fulfil · **To what, where:** wind, wave, native land, long sea penance · **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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saint), 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:pg78491:10:64
# text = Saint Patrick stretched above the wave his hand And thus he spake--and wind and wave were stilled-- ‘Children of Lir, re-tread your native land, For now your long sea-penance is fulfilled!’
1	Saint	Saint	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Patrick	Patrick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	above	above	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	wave	wave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	stilled	still	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	Children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Lir	Lir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	re-tread	re-tread	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
31	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
32	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	39	advmod	_	_
33	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	37	nmod:poss	_	_
34	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
35	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	penance	penance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stretch** | past | Saint | wind |  | the wave |  | Children of Lir *obl* | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* |  | saint |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wave** | present | Saint *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **still** | past · passive | Saint *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP» |
| 5 | **re-tread** | infinitive | Saint *not said here* | your native land |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **fulfil** | present · passive |  | your long sea penance |  |  | now |  | 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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