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title: Through wild and wood Long hours that morn had Naisi chased the stag… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Through wild and wood Long hours that morn had Naisi chased the stag: It took the wave and vanished. Who acts: morn, Naisi, It. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 16

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Through wild and wood Long hours that morn had Naisi chased the stag: It took the wave and vanished.

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**Who acts:** morn, Naisi, It · **What happens:** have, chase, take, vanish · **To what, where:** that, stag, wave

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (morn, Naisi, It), 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:pg78491:4:16
# text = Through wild and wood Long hours that morn had Naisi chased the stag: It took the wave and vanished.
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	obj	_	_
8	morn	morn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
10	Naisi	Naisi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
11	chased	chase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	vanished	vanish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | morn | that |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient |
| 2 | **chase** | past | Naisi | the stag |  |  | hour |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stag=Theme |
| 3 | **take** | past | It | the wave |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Theme |
| 4 | **vanish** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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