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title: On and on Adown that slope he flashed and o’er that plain Like zigza… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: On and on Adown that slope he flashed and o’er that plain Like zigzag sunshaft o’er the autumnal world; And ever where he came the host of Meave Gave way before him. Who acts: that, Ilgairig, o’er. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere,
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 250

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On and on Adown that slope he flashed and o’er that plain Like zigzag sunshaft o’er the autumnal world; And ever where he came the host of Meave Gave way before him.

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**Who acts:** that, Ilgairig, o’er · **What happens:** slope, flash, plain, come · **To what, where:** Adown, o’er

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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 (that, Ilgairig, o’er), 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:pg78491:15:252
# text = On and on Adown that slope he flashed and o’er that plain Like zigzag sunshaft o’er the autumnal world; And ever where he came the host of Meave Gave way before him.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Adown	adown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	slope	slope	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	flashed	flash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	o’er	o'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	plain	plain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	zigzag	zigzag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	sunshaft	sunshaft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	o’er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	autumnal	autumnal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
21	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
22	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	advmod	_	_
23	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	25	advmod	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Gave	Gave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	before	before	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slope** | present | that |  |  | Adown |  | Ilgairig *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **flash** | past | Ilgairig | o’er |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent o'er=Theme |
| 3 | **plain** | present | o’er |  |  |  |  | like zigzag sunshaft o'er the autumnal world | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | past | Ilgairig |  |  |  | ever | the host of Gave way *nsubj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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