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title: The vernal day Panted with summer ardours, while aloft Noontide, a f… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 169

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The vernal day Panted with summer ardours, while aloft Noontide, a fire-tressed Fury, waved her torch, Kindling the lit grove and its youngling green From the azure-blazing zenith.

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**Who acts:** vernal day · **What happens:** pant, tress, wave, kindle, blaze · **To what, where:** vernal day, torch, lit grove, blazing zenith

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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 (vernal day), 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:pg78491:13:171
# text = The vernal day Panted with summer ardours, while aloft Noontide, a fire-tressed Fury, waved her torch, Kindling the lit grove and its youngling green From the azure-blazing zenith.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	vernal	vernal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
4	Panted	pant	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	summer	summer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	ardours	ardour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	aloft	aloft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Noontide	Noontide	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	tressed	tress	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	Fury	Fury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
19	waved	wave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	torch	torch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Kindling	kindle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	lit	lit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	grove	grove	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	youngling	youngling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	green	green	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
31	From	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
33	azure	azure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	blazing	blaze	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	36	amod	_	_
36	zenith	zenith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pant** | participle |  | the vernal day *not said here* |  |  |  | with summer ardours  aloft Noontide and a tressed Fury | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **tress** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | fire *compound* | tree rules |
| 3 | **wave** | past | the vernal day | noontide's torch |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torch=Patient |
| 4 | **kindle** | gerund | the vernal day *not said here* | the lit grove and Fury's youngling green |  | the blazing zenith |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grove=Product from zenith=Material |
| 5 | **blaze** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | azure *compound* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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