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title: Due north she sped, Far fleeting, wind-upborne! ’twixt hill and clou… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Due north she sped, Far fleeting, wind-upborne! ’twixt hill and cloud, To Uladh’s cliffs, and thence with prone descent Sank to the myriad-murmuring sea wine-dark, And whispered to the Genii of the deep, Her sisters:--then from ocean’s breast there rose A mist, no larger than a dead man’s shroud, Th
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 91

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Due north she sped, Far fleeting, wind-upborne! ’twixt hill and cloud, To Uladh’s cliffs, and thence with prone descent Sank to the myriad-murmuring sea wine-dark, And whispered to the Genii of the deep, Her sisters:--then from ocean’s breast there rose A mist, no larger than a dead man’s shroud, That, slowly widening, spread o’er Uladh’s realm Mantle of darkness, and an erring mind, And powerlessness, and shame.

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**Who acts:** clan · **What happens:** speed, upborne, sink, murmur, whisper, rise · **To what, where:** twixt hill, Genii, mist, breast

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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 (clan), 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:pg78491:11:93
# text = Due north she sped, Far fleeting, wind-upborne! ’twixt hill and cloud, To Uladh’s cliffs, and thence with prone descent Sank to the myriad-murmuring sea wine-dark, And whispered to the Genii of the deep, Her sisters:--then from ocean’s breast there rose A mist, no larger than a dead man’s shroud, That, slowly widening, spread o’er Uladh’s realm Mantle of darkness, and an erring mind, And powerlessness, and shame.
1	Due	due	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	4	advcl	_	_
2	north	north	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sped	speed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
7	fleeting	fleeting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	upborne	upborne	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	twixt	twixt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	To	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	prone	prone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	descent	descent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
29	Sank	sink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
32	myriad	myriad	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	murmuring	murmur	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	35	amod	_	_
35	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
36	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
40	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
42	to	to	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	Genii	Genii	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	deep	deep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
50	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	59	advmod	_	_
54	from	from	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
55	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	’s	's	PART	POS	_	55	case	_	_
57	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obl	_	_
58	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	59	advmod	_	_
59	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	conj	_	_
60	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
61	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
63	no	no	ADV	RB	_	64	advmod	_	_
64	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	59	parataxis	_	_
65	than	than	ADP	IN	_	70	case	_	_
66	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	68	det	_	_
67	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	68	amod	_	_
68	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	70	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
69	’s	's	PART	POS	_	68	case	_	_
70	shroud	shroud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
71	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	72	punct	_	_
72	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	64	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
73	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	75	punct	_	_
74	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	75	advmod	_	_
75	widening	widen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	64	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
76	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	77	punct	_	_
77	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	64	conj	_	_
78	o’er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	82	case	_	_
79	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	81	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
80	’s	's	PART	POS	_	79	case	_	_
81	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	82	nmod:desc	_	_
82	Mantle	Mantle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	77	obl	_	_
83	of	of	ADP	IN	_	84	case	_	_
84	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	82	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
85	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	89	punct	_	_
86	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	89	cc	_	_
87	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	89	det	_	_
88	erring	err	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	89	amod	_	_
89	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
90	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	92	punct	_	_
91	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	92	cc	_	_
92	powerlessness	powerlessness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	89	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
93	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	95	punct	_	_
94	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	95	cc	_	_
95	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
96	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speed** | past | clan |  |  |  |  | a erring mind *parataxis*; shame *parataxis*; fleeting, north *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **upborne** | participle | clan *not said here* | twixt hill and cloud |  |  |  | wind *compound*; Uladh's cliffs *conj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sink** | past | clan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with prone descent; to the murmuring sea; thence *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with descent=Instrument |
| 4 | **murmur** *speech: other* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | myriad *compound* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | the Genii of the deep |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to genii=Recipient |
| 6 | **rise** | past |  | a mist |  | ocean's breast; there | then |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient mist=Extent from breast=Initial\_State |
| 7 | **widen** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 8 | **spread** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | o'er Mantle  Uladh's realm of darkness | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **err** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | 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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