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title: The fields Devastated, and wail from foodless glens Filled him as on… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The fields Devastated, and wail from foodless glens Filled him as on he sped with wrathful strength: Next, tidings came of Conor’s southward march: Exultingly he followed. Who acts: fields, Devastated, tidings. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Au
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 208

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The fields Devastated, and wail from foodless glens Filled him as on he sped with wrathful strength: Next, tidings came of Conor’s southward march: Exultingly he followed.

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**Who acts:** fields, Devastated, tidings · **What happens:** fill, speed, come, follow · **To what, where:** wail

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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 (fields, Devastated, tidings), 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:pg78491:15:210
# text = The fields Devastated, and wail from foodless glens Filled him as on he sped with wrathful strength: Next, tidings came of Conor’s southward march: Exultingly he followed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
3	Devastated	Devastated	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
6	wail	wail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	foodless	foodless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	glens	glen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
10	Filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	as	as	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	sped	speed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	wrathful	wrathful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	Next	next	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
23	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	Conor	Conor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	southward	southward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	march	march	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
30	Exultingly	exultingly	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
31	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
32	followed	follow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | past | the fields | wail |  |  |  | Devastated *nsubj* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 2 | **speed** | past | Devastated |  |  |  |  | with wrathful strength | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | tidings |  |  |  |  | of Conor's southward march; next *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of march=Initial\_Location |
| 4 | **follow** | past | Devastated |  |  |  |  | exultingly *property* | 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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