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title: Forty years With deepening rage they fought, till round the isle Mai… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Forty years With deepening rage they fought, till round the isle Main ocean boiled, and from her ships black-ribbed Melted the tar, and mist was over all. Who acts: shapes, mist. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 14, 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 70

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Forty years With deepening rage they fought, till round the isle Main ocean boiled, and from her ships black-ribbed Melted the tar, and mist was over all.

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**Who acts:** shapes, mist · **What happens:** deepen, fight, boil, rib, melt, be · **To what, where:** ships, isle Main ocean, tar

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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 (shapes, mist), 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:pg78491:14:72
# text = Forty years With deepening rage they fought, till round the isle Main ocean boiled, and from her ships black-ribbed Melted the tar, and mist was over all.
1	Forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	With	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	deepening	deepen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	amod	_	_
5	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
10	round	round	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	isle	isle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
13	Main	Main	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	boiled	boil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
21	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	ribbed	rib	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
24	Melted	melt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	tar	tar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
31	over	over	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
32	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	31	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deepen** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **fight** | past | shapes *= shape* |  |  | whale's ships | year | with deepening rage; round the isle Main ocean | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with rage=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **boil** | participle |  | the isle Main ocean *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **rib** | participle |  | whale's ships *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **melt** | participle |  | the tar |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tar=Result |
| 6 | **is** | past | mist |  |  |  |  | over *property* | tree rules |

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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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