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description: From the trampled ford Went up a mist of spray that veiled that strife, Though pierced by demon cries, and flash beside Of demon swords. Who acts: mist. 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 a
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 97

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From the trampled ford Went up a mist of spray that veiled that strife, Though pierced by demon cries, and flash beside Of demon swords.

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**Who acts:** mist · **What happens:** trample, go up, veil, pierce, flash, mist · **To what, where:** trampled ford, strife, demon swords, spray

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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 (mist), 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:pg78491:12:99
# text = From the trampled ford Went up a mist of spray that veiled that strife, Though pierced by demon cries, and flash beside Of demon swords.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	trampled	trample	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
4	ford	ford	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
5	Went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	5	compound:prt	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	spray	spray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	veiled	veil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	strife	strife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	pierced	pierce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	flash	flash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
24	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	fixed	_	_
26	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **trample** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **go up** | past |  |  |  | the trampled ford |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **veil** | past | a mist of spray | that strife |  |  |  | that *nsubj* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent strife=Destination |
| 4 | **pierce** | participle | a mist of spray *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by demon cries | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **flash** | infinitive | a mist of spray *not said here* |  |  | demon swords |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside sword=Location |
| 6 | **mist** |  |  | spray |  |  |  |  | nom mist «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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