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title: Birds saw he next White as a foam-wreath of their native sea, Spotti… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Birds saw he next White as a foam-wreath of their native sea, Spotting the glebe new turned. Who acts: Birds, glebe. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 221

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Birds saw he next White as a foam-wreath of their native sea, Spotting the glebe new turned.

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**Who acts:** Birds, glebe · **What happens:** see, spot, turn · **To what, where:** car

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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 (Birds, glebe), 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:pg78491:11:223
# text = Birds saw he next White as a foam-wreath of their native sea, Spotting the glebe new turned.
1	Birds	bird	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	White	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	wreath	wreath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Spotting	spot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	glebe	glebe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
20	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Birds | car |  |  |  | as a foam wreath of Birds's native sea; white *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus as wreath=Attribute |
| 2 | **spot** | gerund | Birds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
| 3 | **turn** | participle | the glebe |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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