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title: From morn to eve That spoil’s partition lasted; first, huge herds; F… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: From morn to eve That spoil’s partition lasted; first, huge herds; Flocks snowy-white through water-weeds and grass Followed, hound-driven. Who acts: partition. 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 dependenc
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 84

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From morn to eve That spoil’s partition lasted; first, huge herds; Flocks snowy-white through water-weeds and grass Followed, hound-driven.

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**Who acts:** partition · **What happens:** last, follow, drive · **To what, where:** huge herds, morn, water weeds

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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 (partition), 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:pg78491:15:86
# text = From morn to eve That spoil’s partition lasted; first, huge herds; Flocks snowy-white through water-weeds and grass Followed, hound-driven.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	morn	morn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	eve	eve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	spoil	spoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	partition	partition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	lasted	last	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	herds	herd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Flocks	Flock	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
17	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
20	through	through	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	weeds	weed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	grass	grass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
26	Followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **last** | past | that spoil's partition | huge herds |  | morn to eve |  | first *property* | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | participle |  | water weeds and grass *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **drive** | participle | that spoil's partition *not said here* |  |  |  |  | hound *compound* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |

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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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