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title: Unseen he drave; So slowly, clinging still to brake and rock, And of… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Unseen he drave; So slowly, clinging still to brake and rock, And oft re-settling, vanished from the land The insane mist. Who acts: nostril, Unseen drave. 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 tre
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 172

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Unseen he drave; So slowly, clinging still to brake and rock, And oft re-settling, vanished from the land The insane mist.

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**Who acts:** nostril, Unseen drave · **What happens:** drave, cling, break, vanish · **To what, where:** insane mist, land

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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 (nostril, Unseen drave), 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:pg78491:12:174
# text = Unseen he drave; So slowly, clinging still to brake and rock, And oft re-settling, vanished from the land The insane mist.
1	Unseen	unseen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	drave	drave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
5	So	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	clinging	cling	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
9	still	still	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	brake	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	re-settling	re-settling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	insane	insane	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drave** |  | nostril |  |  |  |  | oft re-settling *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cling** | gerund | nostril *not said here* |  |  |  | still | slowly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **break** | to-infinitive | nostril *not said here* |  |  |  |  | rock *conj* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **vanish** | past | Unseen drave and oft re-settling | the insane mist |  | the land |  |  | 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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