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title: Next morn the Uladh host down swarmed Betwixt those neighbouring hil… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Next morn the Uladh host down swarmed Betwixt those neighbouring hills and round their base Far spread as flood that, widening on its way, Changes the heights to islands. Who acts: Next morn, widening. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De V
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 147

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Next morn the Uladh host down swarmed Betwixt those neighbouring hills and round their base Far spread as flood that, widening on its way, Changes the heights to islands.

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**Who acts:** Next morn, widening · **What happens:** swarm, neighbour, round, spread, widen, change · **To what, where:** Betwixt, base, way, heights

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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 (Next morn, widening), 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:pg78491:15:149
# text = Next morn the Uladh host down swarmed Betwixt those neighbouring hills and round their base Far spread as flood that, widening on its way, Changes the heights to islands.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	morn	morn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	down	down	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	swarmed	swarm	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Betwixt	Betwixt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	amod	_	_
11	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	round	round	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	17	advmod	_	_
17	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	widening	widen	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	27	csubj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
27	Changes	change	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	heights	height	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **swarm** | past | Next morn | Betwixt |  |  |  | the Uladh host *nsubj*; that neighbouring hills *obj*; down *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **neighbour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **round** | present | Next morn *not said here* | hills's base |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent base=Patient |
| 4 | **spread** | past | Next morn *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as flood; far *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **widen** | gerund |  |  |  | morn's way |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **change** | present | widening | the heights |  |  |  | to islands | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent height=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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