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title: Far and wide All scaly shapes that buffet Erin’s waves From sprat an… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Far and wide All scaly shapes that buffet Erin’s waves From sprat and minnow up to shark and whale Beat up in finny squadrons. Who acts: scaly shapes, Erin. 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 tr
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 69

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Far and wide All scaly shapes that buffet Erin’s waves From sprat and minnow up to shark and whale Beat up in finny squadrons.

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**Who acts:** scaly shapes, Erin · **What happens:** buffet, beat up, wave · **To what, where:** waves, finny squadrons

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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 (scaly shapes, Erin), 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:pg78491:14:71
# text = Far and wide All scaly shapes that buffet Erin’s waves From sprat and minnow up to shark and whale Beat up in finny squadrons.
1	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
5	scaly	scaly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	shapes	shape	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
8	buffet	buffet	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	’s	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	From	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	sprat	sprat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	minnow	minnow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	shark	shark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	whale	whale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	Beat	beat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	finny	finny	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	squadrons	squadron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **buffet** | present | all scaly shapes | Erin's waves |  |  |  | from sprat and minnow; up shark and whale | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Destination |
| 2 | **beat up** | present | all scaly shapes |  |  | finny squadrons |  | far *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in squadron=Location |
| 3 | **wave** |  | Erin |  |  |  |  |  | nom wave «event 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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