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title: Endless morn Before him fleeting over seas and lands, With shaft ret… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Endless morn Before him fleeting over seas and lands, With shaft retorted lights his chariot-beam. Who acts: morn. 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 every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 111

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Endless morn Before him fleeting over seas and lands, With shaft retorted lights his chariot-beam.

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**Who acts:** morn · **What happens:** fleet, retort, beam · **To what, where:** Endless morn, seas, retorted lights

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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 (morn), 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:pg78491:13:113
# text = Endless morn Before him fleeting over seas and lands, With shaft retorted lights his chariot-beam.
1	Endless	endless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	morn	morn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	fleeting	fleet	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
6	over	over	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	With	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	shaft	shaft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
13	retorted	retort	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	lights	light	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
16	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	beam	beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fleet** | gerund | morn | Endless morn and shaft *not said here* |  | seas and lands |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **retort** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **beam** |  | morn |  |  |  |  |  | nom beam «communication transitive»: 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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