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title: The war-shouts near To him thus harboured seemed but ocean’s sighs R… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The war-shouts near To him thus harboured seemed but ocean’s sighs Round islands ever calm. Who acts: war, ’s. 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 215

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The war-shouts near To him thus harboured seemed but ocean’s sighs Round islands ever calm.

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**Who acts:** war, ’s · **What happens:** shout, harbour, seem, sigh · **To what, where:** ocean, Round islands

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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 (war, ’s), 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:pg78491:15:217
# text = The war-shouts near To him thus harboured seemed but ocean’s sighs Round islands ever calm.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	near	near	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	To	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
8	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	harboured	harbour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
10	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sighs	sigh	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	Round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
18	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | the war |  |  |  |  | near o’er *= o'er* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **harbour** | past | the war *not said here* |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **seem** | past | the war *not said here* | ocean |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **sigh** | present | ’s | Round islands |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent island=Topic |

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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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