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title: As on she sailed On that huge army coldness fell of death: Yea, some… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: As on she sailed On that huge army coldness fell of death: Yea, some there died. Who acts: moon, some. 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 78

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As on she sailed On that huge army coldness fell of death: Yea, some there died.

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**Who acts:** moon, some · **What happens:** sail, fall, die · **To what, where:** huge army coldness

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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 (moon, some), 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:pg78491:15:80
# text = As on she sailed On that huge army coldness fell of death: Yea, some there died.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	On	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	_
7	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	coldness	coldness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
10	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	nsubj	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | past | moon |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fall** | past | moon *not said here* |  |  | huge army coldness  that |  | of death | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on coldness=Location |
| 3 | **die** | past | some |  |  | there |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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