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title: Lo! the same I saw far northward drifting, months gone by, Ere yet t… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lo! the same I saw far northward drifting, months gone by, Ere yet that madness quelled the northern land.’ Who acts: I, madness. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 104

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Lo! the same I saw far northward drifting, months gone by, Ere yet that madness quelled the northern land.’

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**Who acts:** I, madness · **What happens:** see, drift, go, quell · **To what, where:** months, northern 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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, madness), 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:pg78491:13:106
# text = Lo! the same I saw far northward drifting, months gone by, Ere yet that madness quelled the northern land.’
1	Lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	advmod	_	_
8	northward	northward	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	drifting	drift	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	gone	go	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	Ere	Ere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	madness	madness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	quelled	quell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **drift** | gerund | I *not said here* |  |  |  | month | far, northward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **go** | participle |  | months *not said here* |  |  |  | by Ere | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by ere=Location |
| 4 | **quell** | past | that madness | the northern land |  |  | yet |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=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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