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title: As on he carved his course Not now a lane alone of doom and death Bu… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: As on he carved his course Not now a lane alone of doom and death But ever widening valleys ruin-strewn Bore witness of his transit, for behind Closed ever up Cuchullain’s household clans Murthemné’s, and Cuailgné’s. Who acts: Eastward, valleys. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other leg
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 264

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As on he carved his course Not now a lane alone of doom and death But ever widening valleys ruin-strewn Bore witness of his transit, for behind Closed ever up Cuchullain’s household clans Murthemné’s, and Cuailgné’s.

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**Who acts:** Eastward, valleys · **What happens:** carve, widen, witness, close · **To what, where:** course

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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 (Eastward, valleys), 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:pg78491:15:266
# text = As on he carved his course Not now a lane alone of doom and death But ever widening valleys ruin-strewn Bore witness of his transit, for behind Closed ever up Cuchullain’s household clans Murthemné’s, and Cuailgné’s.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	carved	carve	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	lane	lane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	doom	doom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	18	advmod	_	_
18	widening	widen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
19	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	_
20	ruin	ruin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	strewn	strewn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	Bore	bore	X	AFX	_	24	compound	_	_
24	witness	witness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	parataxis	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	transit	transit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
30	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
31	Closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
32	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	31	advmod	_	_
33	up	up	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
34	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	’s	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	clans	clan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
38	Murthemné	Murthemné	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’s	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
42	Cuailgné	Cuailgné	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	’s	's	PART	POS	_	42	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **carve** | past | Eastward | Eastward's course |  |  |  | a lane of doom and death *obl* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Theme |
| 2 | **widen** | gerund | Eastward *not said here* |  |  |  | ever |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **witness** |  | valleys |  |  |  |  | of Eastward's transit; ruin *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **close** | participle | Eastward *not said here* |  |  |  | ever | up Cuchullain's household clans | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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