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title: ‘“She spake and passed: Trembled the place like cliffs o’er ocean ca… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘“She spake and passed: Trembled the place like cliffs o’er ocean caves: Like thunder underground I heard her wheels In echoes slowly dying.” Who acts: Macha, Conor. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11, with its depe
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 195

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‘“She spake and passed: Trembled the place like cliffs o’er ocean caves: Like thunder underground I heard her wheels In echoes slowly dying.”

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**Who acts:** Macha, Conor · **What happens:** pass, tremble, hear, die · **To what, where:** place, Macha, echoes

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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 (Macha, Conor), 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:pg78491:11:197
# text = ‘“She spake and passed: Trembled the place like cliffs o’er ocean caves: Like thunder underground I heard her wheels In echoes slowly dying.”
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
4	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Trembled	tremble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
13	o’er	o'	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	15	amod	_	_
14	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	caves	cave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
19	underground	underground	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	wheels	wheel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	In	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	echoes	echo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
26	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** *in a quote* | past | Macha |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tremble** *in a quote* | participle | Macha *not said here* | the place |  |  |  | like cliffs and o’er ocean caves | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location place=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** *in a quote* | past | Conor | Macha |  | echoes |  | like thunder; wheels *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **die** *in a quote* | gerund | Conor *not said here* |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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