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title: A clarion broke ere long Her trance: adown the slope she saw his hos… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: A clarion broke ere long Her trance: adown the slope she saw his host Winding t’ward Eman. Who acts: clarion, host. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 14, 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 14, sentence 143

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A clarion broke ere long Her trance: adown the slope she saw his host Winding t’ward Eman.

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**Who acts:** clarion, host · **What happens:** break, see, wind, trance · **To what, where:** long trance, host, Eman

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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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (clarion, host), 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:pg78491:14:145
# text = A clarion broke ere long Her trance: adown the slope she saw his host Winding t’ward Eman.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	clarion	clarion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	trance	trance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	adown	adown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	slope	slope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	Winding	wind	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	t’ward	t'ward	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	Eman	Eman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **break** | past | a clarion | clarion's long trance and adown |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer trance=Patient |
| 2 | **see** | past | clarion | Ere's host |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer host=Stimulus |
| 3 | **wind** | gerund | Ere's host *not said here* | Eman |  |  |  | t'ward *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme eman=Result |
| 4 | **trance** |  | clarion |  |  |  |  |  | nom trance «state 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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