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title: She told how first, from regions of the morn With black-sailed ships… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: She told how first, from regions of the morn With black-sailed ships stemming the ocean tide To Erin’s forest, yet of men forlorn, Came Partholan, the Grecian Parricide: And how the ill race had perished. Who acts: child, sailed ships. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ir
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 47

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She told how first, from regions of the morn With black-sailed ships stemming the ocean tide To Erin’s forest, yet of men forlorn, Came Partholan, the Grecian Parricide: And how the ill race had perished.

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**Who acts:** child, sailed ships · **What happens:** tell, sail, stem, perish · **To what, where:** regions, ocean tide, ill race · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, sailed ships), 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:pg78491:3:47
# text = She told how first, from regions of the morn With black-sailed ships stemming the ocean tide To Erin’s forest, yet of men forlorn, Came Partholan, the Grecian Parricide: And how the ill race had perished.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	told	tell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	morn	morn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	With	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	sailed	sail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
16	stemming	stem	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
20	To	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
28	forlorn	forlorn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Came	Came	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
31	Partholan	Partholan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Grecian	grecian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	Parricide	parricide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
37	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
38	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	43	advmod	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj:pass	_	_
42	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	aux	_	_
43	perished	perish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | child |  |  | regions of the morn with sailed ships |  | first *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sail** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stem** | gerund | sailed ships *not said here* | the ocean tide |  |  |  | to Erin's forest | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tide=Theme |
| 4 | **perish** | past · perfect · passive |  | the ill race |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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