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title: As she sped, The path before her, prone till then and low, Rising ra… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: As she sped, The path before her, prone till then and low, Rising ran out a craggy ridge sublime, The same that for a hundred miles this day Divides the realm. Who acts: goddess, hundred miles. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Ope
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 42

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As she sped, The path before her, prone till then and low, Rising ran out a craggy ridge sublime, The same that for a hundred miles this day Divides the realm.

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**Who acts:** goddess, hundred miles · **What happens:** speed, rise, run out, divide · **To what, where:** path, craggy ridge, that

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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 (goddess, hundred miles), 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:pg78491:15:44
# text = As she sped, The path before her, prone till then and low, Rising ran out a craggy ridge sublime, The same that for a hundred miles this day Divides the realm.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sped	speed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	prone	prone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	till	till	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	Rising	rise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	nsubj	_	_
17	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	out	out	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	craggy	craggy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	ridge	ridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
22	sublime	sublime	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	parataxis	_	_
26	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obj	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
31	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
32	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:unmarked	_	_
33	Divides	divide	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	parataxis	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speed** | past | goddess | the path and prone |  |  | before Erin |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent path=Theme before she=Trajectory |
| 2 | **rise** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **run out** | past |  | a craggy ridge |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ridge=Trajectory |
| 4 | **divide** | present | hundred miles  this day | that |  |  |  | the realm *obj* | tree rules |

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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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