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title: Aloud she cried, ‘On to Moytura where the prophet dwells;’ And strai… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Aloud she cried, ‘On to Moytura where the prophet dwells;’ And straight her charioteer the horses smote And tamed them with the reins: and lo! what time The noontide sun with keenest splendour blazed, Right opposite upon the chariot’s beam There sat a wondrous woman phantom-faced Singing and weaving
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 72

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Aloud she cried, ‘On to Moytura where the prophet dwells;’ And straight her charioteer the horses smote And tamed them with the reins: and lo! what time The noontide sun with keenest splendour blazed, Right opposite upon the chariot’s beam There sat a wondrous woman phantom-faced Singing and weaving.

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**Who acts:** Aloud, horses, noontide sun · **What happens:** cry, smite, tame, blaze, sit, weave · **To what, where:** Moytura, charioteer, dwells, Right opposite, wondrous woman, chariot

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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 (Aloud, horses, noontide sun), 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:pg78491:11:74
# text = Aloud she cried, ‘On to Moytura where the prophet dwells;’ And straight her charioteer the horses smote And tamed them with the reins: and lo! what time The noontide sun with keenest splendour blazed, Right opposite upon the chariot’s beam There sat a wondrous woman phantom-faced Singing and weaving.
1	Aloud	aloud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	nsubj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	On	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Moytura	Moytura	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	12	advmod	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	dwells	dwell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	NFP	_	21	punct	_	_
15	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	charioteer	charioteer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	tamed	tame	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	reins	rein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
30	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
32	what	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	33	det	_	_
33	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl:unmarked	_	_
34	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	noontide	noontide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	keenest	keen	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	39	amod	_	_
39	splendour	splendour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	blazed	blaze	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	50	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	Right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	opposite	opposite	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
44	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	’s	's	PART	POS	_	46	case	_	_
48	beam	beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
49	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	50	expl	_	_
50	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
51	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
54	phantom	phantom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	faced	faced	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	Singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	conj	_	_
58	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	59	cc	_	_
59	weaving	weave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	57	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Aloud |  |  | Moytura  prophet dwells |  | Eclipse *nsubj* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on moytura=Location |
| 2 | **smite** | past | the horses | Eclipse's charioteer |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **tame** | past | the horses *not said here* | dwells *= dwell* |  |  |  | with the reins | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with rein=Instrument |
| 4 | **blaze** | participle | the noontide sun with keenest splendour | Right opposite upon the chariot's beam |  |  | time |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lo=Theme |
| 5 | **sit** | past | the horses *not said here* | a wondrous woman and faced Singing |  | there |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location woman=Theme |
| 6 | **weave** | gerund | the horses *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **beam** |  |  | the chariot |  |  |  |  | nom beam «communication transitive»: poss=patient |

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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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