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title: There fell a silence strange: Slowly that mist dispersed; and on the… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: There fell a silence strange: Slowly that mist dispersed; and on the sands That false Enchanter lay with all his sons Black, bleeding bulks of death. Who acts: sands. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12, with its dep
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 100

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There fell a silence strange: Slowly that mist dispersed; and on the sands That false Enchanter lay with all his sons Black, bleeding bulks of death.

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**Who acts:** sands · **What happens:** fall, disperse, lay, bleed · **To what, where:** silence, mist, bulks

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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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sands), 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:pg78491:12:102
# text = There fell a silence strange: Slowly that mist dispersed; and on the sands That false Enchanter lay with all his sons Black, bleeding bulks of death.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
7	Slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
10	dispersed	disperse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sands	sand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
16	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
17	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	Enchanter	Enchanter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	lay	lay	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	Black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	bleeding	bleed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
27	bulks	bulk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past |  | a silence |  | there |  | that mist *obj*; slowly, strange *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **disperse** | participle |  | that mist *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **lay** | present | the sands  false Enchanter  That |  |  |  |  | with mist's sons | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **bleed** | gerund | the sands  false Enchanter  That *not said here* | bulks of death |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bulk=Source |

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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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