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title: Ere that cry Had left its last vibration on the air High up the Batt… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ere that cry Had left its last vibration on the air High up the Battle-Goddess, adamant-mailed, Was drifting over Uladh. Who acts: Ere cry, Was, cry. 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 dependency tree and 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 159

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Ere that cry Had left its last vibration on the air High up the Battle-Goddess, adamant-mailed, Was drifting over Uladh.

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**Who acts:** Ere cry, Was, cry · **What happens:** leave, mail, drift, vibrate · **To what, where:** last vibration, air, Uladh

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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 (Ere cry, Was, cry), 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:pg78491:12:161
# text = Ere that cry Had left its last vibration on the air High up the Battle-Goddess, adamant-mailed, Was drifting over Uladh.
1	Ere	Ere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	3	det	_	_
3	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	vibration	vibration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
12	High	high	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	Battle	Battle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Goddess	Goddess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	adamant	adamant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	mailed	mail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	Was	Was	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	drifting	drift	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
25	over	over	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past · perfect | that Ere cry | cry's last vibration |  | the air |  | up the Battle Goddess; high *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent vibration=Theme on air=Location |
| 2 | **mail** | participle | that Ere cry *not said here* |  |  |  |  | adamant *compound* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **drift** | gerund | Was |  |  | Uladh |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over uladh=Trajectory |
| 4 | **vibrate** |  | cry |  |  |  |  |  | nom vibration «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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