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title: Fiery faces thronged The air around him, and the voice of Gods Made… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fiery faces thronged The air around him, and the voice of Gods Made smooth his way triumphant. Who acts: Fiery faces. 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 257

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Fiery faces thronged The air around him, and the voice of Gods Made smooth his way triumphant.

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**Who acts:** Fiery faces · **What happens:** throng, make · **To what, where:** air, voice

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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 (Fiery faces), 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:pg78491:15:259
# text = Fiery faces thronged The air around him, and the voice of Gods Made smooth his way triumphant.
1	Fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	faces	face	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	thronged	throng	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	around	around	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Gods	god	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
14	Made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
15	smooth	smooth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	triumphant	triumphant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throng** | past | Fiery faces | the air |  |  |  | around Ilgairig | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle · passive |  | the voice of Gods |  |  |  | Ilgairig's way *obl*; smooth, triumphant *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product |

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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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