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title: Next morning, from that spot Northward to Eman lay a branded track:… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Next morning, from that spot Northward to Eman lay a branded track: Straight as a lance still stretched it, league on league; A bar of winter black through harvest fields, A bridge of ice spanning the rippling waves; A pledge that men had dreamed not. Who acts: lance, ice. A sentence of «The foray o
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 79

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Next morning, from that spot Northward to Eman lay a branded track: Straight as a lance still stretched it, league on league; A bar of winter black through harvest fields, A bridge of ice spanning the rippling waves; A pledge that men had dreamed not.

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**Who acts:** lance, ice · **What happens:** lie, brand, stretch, span, not dream · **To what, where:** branded track, track, rippling waves, pledge

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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 (lance, ice), 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:pg78491:15:81
# text = Next morning, from that spot Northward to Eman lay a branded track: Straight as a lance still stretched it, league on league; A bar of winter black through harvest fields, A bridge of ice spanning the rippling waves; A pledge that men had dreamed not.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
7	Northward	northward	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Eman	Eman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	branded	brand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	track	track	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Straight	straight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	still	still	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	league	league	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	league	league	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	bar	bar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	_
32	through	through	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	harvest	harvest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	spanning	span	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	39	acl	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	rippling	rippling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	pledge	pledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	parataxis	_	_
47	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	50	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	nsubj	_	_
49	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
50	dreamed	dream	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	acl:relcl	_	_
51	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	50	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lie** | past |  | a branded track |  |  | morning | a bridge of ice *obl*; a pledge *parataxis* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location track=Theme |
| 2 | **brand** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stretch** | past | a lance | track |  |  | still | league on league *obl* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **span** | gerund | ice *not said here* | the rippling waves |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wave=Co-Theme |
| 5 | **not** **dream** | past · perfect · passive |  | a pledge |  |  |  | men *nsubj* | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |

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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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