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title: Then Meave; ‘Through all that mist is movement strange, The agitatio… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Meave; ‘Through all that mist is movement strange, The agitation of some wondrous life, And t’wards us on it rolleth.’ Who acts: Meave, us. 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 p
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 98

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Then Meave; ‘Through all that mist is movement strange, The agitation of some wondrous life, And t’wards us on it rolleth.’

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**Who acts:** Meave, us · **What happens:** be, roll · **To what, where:** mist

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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 (Meave, us), 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:pg78491:15:100
# text = Then Meave; ‘Through all that mist is movement strange, The agitation of some wondrous life, And t’wards us on it rolleth.’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
4	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
9	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	agitation	agitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
17	wondrous	wondrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
21	t’wards	t'wards	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	_
25	rolleth	roll	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Meave |  |  | all mist |  | the agitation of some wondrous life *conj*; strange *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **roll** | present | us |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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