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title: The sun arose And smote the forest roof dew-saturate As onward dashe… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The sun arose And smote the forest roof dew-saturate As onward dashed through woodlands to the Ford Cuchullain’s war-car. Who acts: sun, forest roof. 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 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 94

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The sun arose And smote the forest roof dew-saturate As onward dashed through woodlands to the Ford Cuchullain’s war-car.

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**Who acts:** sun, forest roof · **What happens:** arise, smite, saturate, dash · **To what, where:** woodlands

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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 (sun, forest roof), 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:pg78491:13:96
# text = The sun arose And smote the forest roof dew-saturate As onward dashed through woodlands to the Ford Cuchullain’s war-car.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	dew	dew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	saturate	saturate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	ccomp	_	_
12	As	as	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	dashed	dash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	xcomp	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	woodlands	woodland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Ford	Ford	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arise** | past | the sun |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **smite** | past | the sun *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **saturate** | infinitive | the forest roof |  |  |  |  | dew *compound*; onward *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **dash** | participle | the forest roof *not said here* |  |  | woodlands to the Ford Cuchullain's war car |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through woodland=Trajectory |

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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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