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title: Dalríad fastnesses She burned with fire, and seized full many a herd… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Dalríad fastnesses She burned with fire, and seized full many a herd On banks of Bann; then westward turned, and kenned The grass-green glitter soon of far Lough Foyle, And where the winding river-sea divides Fanad from Inishowen’s cliffs forlorn. Who acts: Dalríad fastnesses, winding river sea. A s
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 78

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Dalríad fastnesses She burned with fire, and seized full many a herd On banks of Bann; then westward turned, and kenned The grass-green glitter soon of far Lough Foyle, And where the winding river-sea divides Fanad from Inishowen’s cliffs forlorn.

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**Who acts:** Dalríad fastnesses, winding river sea · **What happens:** burn, seize, turn, ken, divide · **To what, where:** full many herd, banks, green glitter, Fanad

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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 (Dalríad fastnesses, winding river sea), 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:pg78491:14:80
# text = Dalríad fastnesses She burned with fire, and seized full many a herd On banks of Bann; then westward turned, and kenned The grass-green glitter soon of far Lough Foyle, And where the winding river-sea divides Fanad from Inishowen’s cliffs forlorn.
1	Dalríad	dalríad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	fastnesses	fastness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	burned	burn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
14	On	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Bann	Bann	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
20	westward	westward	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	kenned	ken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	conj	_	_
25	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
26	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	glitter	glitter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
30	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	33	advmod	_	_
33	Lough	Lough	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
34	Foyle	Foyle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
36	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
37	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	43	advmod	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
39	winding	winding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	_
40	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	40	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	divides	divide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
44	Fanad	Fanad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	_
45	from	from	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	Inishowen	Inishowen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	’s	's	PART	POS	_	46	case	_	_
48	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
49	forlorn	forlorn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | past | Dalríad fastnesses |  |  |  |  | with fire; Meave *nsubj* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fire=Theme |
| 2 | **seize** | past | Dalríad fastnesses *not said here* | a full many herd |  | banks of Bann |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme |
| 3 | **turn** | past |  |  |  |  | then | westward *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **ken** | past |  | the green glitter |  |  |  | of Lough | tree rules |
| 5 | **divide** | present | the winding river sea | Fanad |  |  |  | from Inishowen's cliffs; forlorn *property* | vn separate-23.1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent fanad=Patient from cliff=Co-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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