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title: Aileach she passed, more late the seat of kings; And, southward next… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Aileach she passed, more late the seat of kings; And, southward next, that lake[34] whose lonely isle Descends, through caves, to Spirit-worlds unknown. Who acts: Aileach. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 14, with it
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 79

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Aileach she passed, more late the seat of kings; And, southward next, that lake\[34\] whose lonely isle Descends, through caves, to Spirit-worlds unknown.

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**Who acts:** Aileach · **What happens:** pass · **To what, where:** late seat

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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 (Aileach), 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:pg78491:14:81
# text = Aileach she passed, more late the seat of kings; And, southward next, that lake[34] whose lonely isle Descends, through caves, to Spirit-worlds unknown.
1	Aileach	aileach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
12	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	southward	southward	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
15	next	next	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	34	34	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	20	punct	_	_
22	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	isle	isle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Descends	Descends	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	through	through	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	caves	cave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Spirit	Spirit	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	worlds	world	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | Aileach | the late seat of kings |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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