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title: Next changed those salmons twain to dragon-flies: But while they sat… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Next changed those salmons twain to dragon-flies: But while they sat in hate on neighbouring pools A dun cow and a red cow drank them up Unwittingly. Who acts: shapes. 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 de
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 71

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Next changed those salmons twain to dragon-flies: But while they sat in hate on neighbouring pools A dun cow and a red cow drank them up Unwittingly.

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**Who acts:** shapes · **What happens:** change, sit, neighbour, drink up · **To what, where:** salmons twain, hate, shapes

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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), 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:pg78491:14:73
# text = Next changed those salmons twain to dragon-flies: But while they sat in hate on neighbouring pools A dun cow and a red cow drank them up Unwittingly.
1	Next	next	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	changed	change	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	salmons	salmon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	compound	_	_
5	twain	twain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	dragon	dragon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	flies	fly	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
11	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
12	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	advcl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	hate	hate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	amod	_	_
19	pools	pool	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
20	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	dun	dun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	cow	cow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
27	drank	drink	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
30	Unwittingly	unwittingly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | past |  | that salmons twain |  |  |  | to dragon flies; next *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twain=Patient |
| 2 | **sit** | past | shapes *= shape* |  |  | hate |  | on neighbouring pools | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hate=Location |
| 3 | **neighbour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **drink up** | past |  | shapes *= shape* |  |  |  | unwittingly *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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