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title: Above those wondrous steeds That Great One glittered through the mis… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Above those wondrous steeds That Great One glittered through the mist of morn, Splendour gloom-veiled. Who acts: Great One, Splendour. 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 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 96

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Above those wondrous steeds That Great One glittered through the mist of morn, Splendour gloom-veiled.

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**Who acts:** Great One, Splendour · **What happens:** glitter, veil, mist · **To what, where:** wondrous steeds, morn

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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 (Great One, Splendour), 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:pg78491:13:98
# text = Above those wondrous steeds That Great One glittered through the mist of morn, Splendour gloom-veiled.
1	Above	above	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
5	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	nsubj	_	_
6	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	One	One	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	glittered	glitter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	morn	morn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	Splendour	Splendour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
16	gloom	gloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	veiled	veil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glitter** | past | Great One  That |  |  | that wondrous steeds |  | through the mist of morn | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above steed=Location |
| 2 | **veil** | participle | Splendour |  |  |  |  | gloom *compound* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **mist** |  |  | morn |  |  |  |  | nom mist «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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