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title: Then on the third day as the sun uprose Behold! a purple mist engirt… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then on the third day as the sun uprose Behold! a purple mist engirt that grave; And from it, fair as rainbow backed by cloud, Shone out a kingly Phantom robed in green, With red-brown locks, close clustered, drenched in dew, And golden crown, and golden-hilted sword;-- His hand was on it. Who acts:
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 98

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Then on the third day as the sun uprose Behold! a purple mist engirt that grave; And from it, fair as rainbow backed by cloud, Shone out a kingly Phantom robed in green, With red-brown locks, close clustered, drenched in dew, And golden crown, and golden-hilted sword;-- His hand was on it.

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**Who acts:** purple mist engirt, hand · **What happens:** uprose, grave, back, shine out, robe, cluster · **To what, where:** purple mist engirt, engirt, rainbow, kingly Phantom, brown locks

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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 (purple mist engirt, hand), 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:pg78491:10:101
# text = Then on the third day as the sun uprose Behold! a purple mist engirt that grave; And from it, fair as rainbow backed by cloud, Shone out a kingly Phantom robed in green, With red-brown locks, close clustered, drenched in dew, And golden crown, and golden-hilted sword;-- His hand was on it.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	third	third	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	uprose	uprose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	9	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	engirt	engirt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	grave	grave	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	advcl	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	backed	back	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	_
27	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
31	out	out	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	kingly	kingly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	Phantom	phantom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
35	robed	robe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	acl	_	_
36	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	With	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
40	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	brown	brown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	clustered	cluster	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	43	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
48	drenched	drench	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	conj	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
53	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	60	punct	_	_
56	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	60	cc	_	_
57	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	59	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	hilted	hilt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	60	amod	_	_
60	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	67	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
63	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	64	nmod:poss	_	_
64	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	67	nsubj	_	_
65	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	67	cop	_	_
66	on	on	ADP	IN	_	67	case	_	_
67	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **uprose** | past |  | a purple mist engirt |  | engirt | then; day | golden crown *parataxis*; hilted sword *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **grave** | present | a purple mist engirt |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **back** | participle |  | rainbow *not said here* |  |  |  | by cloud | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by cloud=Trajectory |
| 4 | **shine out** | participle |  | a kingly Phantom |  |  |  | with brown locks | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent phantom=Theme |
| 5 | **robe** | participle |  | a kingly Phantom *not said here* |  |  |  | in green | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in green=Theme |
| 6 | **cluster** | participle |  | brown locks *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **drench** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | in dew | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in dew=Theme |
| 8 | **hilt** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 9 | **is** | past | saint's hand |  |  | engirt |  |  | 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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