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title: Instant, felt ere heard, Vibration strange troubled the moonlit air;… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Instant, felt ere heard, Vibration strange troubled the moonlit air; A long-drawn hiss o’er-ran it: then a cry, Death-cry of warrior wounded to the death. Who acts: Vibration, drawn hiss o’er, warrior. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De V
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 149

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Instant, felt ere heard, Vibration strange troubled the moonlit air; A long-drawn hiss o’er-ran it: then a cry, Death-cry of warrior wounded to the death.

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**Who acts:** Vibration, drawn hiss o’er, warrior · **What happens:** hear, trouble, draw, run, wound, cry · **To what, where:** Instant, moonlit air, air, Death cry · **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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vibration, drawn hiss o’er, warrior), 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:pg78491:11:151
# text = Instant, felt ere heard, Vibration strange troubled the moonlit air; A long-drawn hiss o’er-ran it: then a cry, Death-cry of warrior wounded to the death.
1	Instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	Vibration	Vibration	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
8	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
9	troubled	trouble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	moonlit	moonlit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
14	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
18	hiss	hiss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	o’er	o'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	26	advmod	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	Death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	wounded	wound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past |  | Instant |  |  |  | a cry and Death cry of warrior *obl*; ere *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **trouble** | past | Vibration | the moonlit air |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus air=Experiencer |
| 3 | **draw** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **run** | past | a drawn hiss o’er | air |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory |
| 5 | **wound** | participle |  | Death cry of warrior *not said here* |  |  |  | to the death | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **cry** |  | warrior |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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