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title: Terrible as Fate The goddess of the battles high o’er head Sailed on… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Terrible as Fate The goddess of the battles high o’er head Sailed on full-panoplied, in hue as when On Alpine snows, their sunset glories gone, Night’s winding-sheet descends. Who acts: sunset, winding sheet. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubr
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 76

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Terrible as Fate The goddess of the battles high o’er head Sailed on full-panoplied, in hue as when On Alpine snows, their sunset glories gone, Night’s winding-sheet descends.

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**Who acts:** sunset, winding sheet · **What happens:** sail, panoply, glory, descend · **To what, where:** high o’er head, hue, Alpine snows

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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 (sunset, winding sheet), 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:pg78491:15:78
# text = Terrible as Fate The goddess of the battles high o’er head Sailed on full-panoplied, in hue as when On Alpine snows, their sunset glories gone, Night’s winding-sheet descends.
1	Terrible	terrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Fate	Fate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	goddess	goddess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	o’er	o'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	Sailed	sail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	panoplied	panoply	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	hue	hue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
21	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	28	mark	_	_
22	On	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	Alpine	alpine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	snows	snow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	glories	glory	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
29	gone	gone	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
31	Night	Night	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	winding	winding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	33	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	sheet	sheet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	descends	descend	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **sail** | participle |  | high o’er head *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **panoply** | participle |  |  |  | hue |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **glory** | present | snows's sunset |  |  | Alpine snows |  | gone *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **descend** | present | Night's winding sheet |  |  |  |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «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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