---
title: Once more it swelled his breast: In majesty re-clothed each massive… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Once more it swelled his breast: In majesty re-clothed each massive limb, And flashed in darksome light of hair and eye Resplendent as of old. Who acts: hand. 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 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/13/149/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The foray of Queen Meave, and other le…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/) / [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/13/) / 149

# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 149

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Once more it swelled his breast: In majesty re-clothed each massive limb, And flashed in darksome light of hair and eye Resplendent as of old.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** hand · **What happens:** swell, re-cloth, flash, light · **To what, where:** breast, massive limb, majesty, darksome light, hair

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (hand), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:13:151
# text = Once more it swelled his breast: In majesty re-clothed each massive limb, And flashed in darksome light of hair and eye Resplendent as of old.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	_
2	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	4	advmod	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	swelled	swell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	In	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	majesty	majesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
10	re-clothed	re-cloth	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
12	massive	massive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	limb	limb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	flashed	flash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	darksome	darksome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
24	Resplendent	resplendent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	27	case	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	fixed	_	_
27	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swell** | past | hand | Cuchullain's breast |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient breast=Extent |
| 2 | **re-cloth** | past | hand *not said here* | each massive limb |  | majesty |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **flash** | past | hand *not said here* |  |  | darksome light of hair and eye |  | resplendent *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location |
| 4 | **light** |  |  | hair |  |  |  |  | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 148](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/13/148/)
- next →: [sentence 150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/13/150/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/13/)