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title: From a burning couch She rose next eve; and, strong with fever’s str… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: From a burning couch She rose next eve; and, strong with fever’s strength, Paced swiftly by that sunset-crimsoned stream Which cut the camp in twain. Who acts: clarion, crimsoned stream. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, p
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 144

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From a burning couch She rose next eve; and, strong with fever’s strength, Paced swiftly by that sunset-crimsoned stream Which cut the camp in twain.

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**Who acts:** clarion, crimsoned stream · **What happens:** burn, rise, pace, crimson, cut · **To what, where:** next eve, burning couch, camp, twain

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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, crimsoned stream), 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:pg78491:14:146
# text = From a burning couch She rose next eve; and, strong with fever’s strength, Paced swiftly by that sunset-crimsoned stream Which cut the camp in twain.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	couch	couch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	rose	rise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	eve	eve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Paced	pace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
19	swiftly	swiftly	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
22	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	crimsoned	crimson	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
26	Which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	twain	twain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rise** | past | clarion | next eve |  | a burning couch |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient eve=Extent from couch=Initial\_State |
| 3 | **pace** | participle | clarion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by that crimsoned stream; swiftly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by stream=Trajectory |
| 4 | **crimson** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **cut** | past | that crimsoned stream | the camp |  | twain |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset camp=Product |

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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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