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title: Next day, far south, Forth rolled the roar of Ailill’s Bull snow-whi… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Next day, far south, Forth rolled the roar of Ailill’s Bull snow-white, Fionbannah. Who acts: Bull. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 16, 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 16, sentence 5

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Next day, far south, Forth rolled the roar of Ailill’s Bull snow-white, Fionbannah.

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**Who acts:** Bull · **What happens:** roll, roar · **To what, where:** roar

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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 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bull), 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:pg78491:16:5
# text = Next day, far south, Forth rolled the roar of Ailill’s Bull snow-white, Fionbannah.
1	Next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	south	south	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	Forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	roar	roar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	Ailill	Ailill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	Bull	bull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
15	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	Fionbannah	Fionbannah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | past |  | the roar of Ailill's Bull and Fionbannah |  |  | day | forth *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roar=Agent |
| 2 | **roar** |  | Ailill's Bull |  |  |  |  |  | nom roar «event intransitive»: of=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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