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title: Fergus, at last Forth launched upon his native element, Raced o’er t… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fergus, at last Forth launched upon his native element, Raced o’er the battle billows like a bark When tempests stretch its canvass. Who acts: Fergus, tempests, tempest. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15, with its 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 156

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Fergus, at last Forth launched upon his native element, Raced o’er the battle billows like a bark When tempests stretch its canvass.

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**Who acts:** Fergus, tempests, tempest · **What happens:** launch, race, stretch, canvass · **To what, where:** native element, canvass

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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 (Fergus, tempests, tempest), 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:pg78491:15:158
# text = Fergus, at last Forth launched upon his native element, Raced o’er the battle billows like a bark When tempests stretch its canvass.
1	Fergus	Fergus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Forth	Forth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	launched	launch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	element	element	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Raced	race	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	o’er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	billows	billow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	like	like	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	22	mark	_	_
21	tempests	tempest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	stretch	stretch	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	canvass	canvass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **launch** | past | Fergus at last Forth |  |  | Forth's native element |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent upon element=Destination |
| 2 | **race** | participle |  | Forth's native element *not said here* |  |  |  | o'er the battle billows like a bark | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **stretch** | present | tempests | tempest's canvass |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent canvass=Patient |
| 4 | **canvass** |  | tempest |  |  |  |  |  | nom canvass «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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