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title: As the spring, When the first spray catches the amorous red, Her son… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: As the spring, When the first spray catches the amorous red, Her song-bird sends, herald and harbinger, So Uladh sends before her onward steps Her shrill-voiced vanguard: men of might are they, Hewers of war-ways for her battle cars Advancing through the forests. Who acts: first spray, song bird, Ul
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 139

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As the spring, When the first spray catches the amorous red, Her song-bird sends, herald and harbinger, So Uladh sends before her onward steps Her shrill-voiced vanguard: men of might are they, Hewers of war-ways for her battle cars Advancing through the forests.

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**Who acts:** first spray, song bird, Uladh, men, battle cars · **What happens:** catch, send, step, voice, be, advance · **To what, where:** amorous red, herald, shrill voiced vanguard, Hewers, forests

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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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (first spray, song bird, Uladh, men), 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:pg78491:15:141
# text = As the spring, When the first spray catches the amorous red, Her song-bird sends, herald and harbinger, So Uladh sends before her onward steps Her shrill-voiced vanguard: men of might are they, Hewers of war-ways for her battle cars Advancing through the forests.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	spring	spring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	9	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	8	amod	_	_
8	spray	spray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	catches	catch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	amorous	amorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
15	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	herald	herald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	harbinger	harbinger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	So	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
25	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	sends	send	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
27	before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	steps	step	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	ccomp	_	_
31	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
32	shrill	shrill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	voiced	voice	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	amod	_	_
35	vanguard	vanguard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
37	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
40	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
41	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	Hewers	hewer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	parataxis	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	45	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	ways	way	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	nmod	_	_
48	for	for	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
50	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	compound	_	_
51	cars	car	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	_
52	Advancing	advance	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	51	acl	_	_
53	through	through	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	forests	forest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | present | the first spray | the amorous red |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent red=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | present | spray's song bird | herald and harbinger |  |  | spring |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herald=Theme |
| 3 | **send** | present | Uladh |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **step** | present | Uladh | spray's shrill voiced vanguard |  |  |  | onward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location vanguard=Theme |
| 5 | **voice** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **is a** | present | men | Hewers |  |  |  | of war ways for spray's battle cars; birds *= bird* *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 7 | **advance** | gerund | spray's battle cars *not said here* |  |  | the forests |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through forest=Initial\_Location |

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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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