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title: High o’er head A dulcet strain, unutterably sad, When ceased that ph… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: High o’er head A dulcet strain, unutterably sad, When ceased that phantom rush of fugitive feet, Drifted far northward. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 198

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High o’er head A dulcet strain, unutterably sad, When ceased that phantom rush of fugitive feet, Drifted far northward.

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**What happens:** cease, drift, rush · **To what, where:** phantom rush, dulcet strain, fugitive feet

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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: 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:pg78491:15:200
# text = High o’er head A dulcet strain, unutterably sad, When ceased that phantom rush of fugitive feet, Drifted far northward.
1	High	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	o’er	o'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	dulcet	dulcet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	strain	strain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	unutterably	unutterably	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
12	ceased	cease	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	phantom	phantom	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	rush	rush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	fugitive	fugitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	Drifted	drift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
21	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	22	advmod	_	_
22	northward	northward	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cease** | participle |  | that phantom rush of fugitive feet |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality rush=Eventuality |
| 2 | **drift** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | northward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **rush** |  |  | fugitive feet |  |  |  |  | nom rush «act transitive»: of=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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