---
title: Already there The greedy, youngling sunrise made his feast, Though s… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Already there The greedy, youngling sunrise made his feast, Though still in cloud half muffled was the east. Who acts: greedy youngling sunrise, cloud half. 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 tre
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/4/62/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The foray of Queen Meave, and other le…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/) / [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/4/) / 62

# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 62

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
Already there The greedy, youngling sunrise made his feast, Though still in cloud half muffled was the east.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** greedy youngling sunrise, cloud half · **What happens:** make, muffle, be · **To what, where:** feast, east

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (greedy youngling sunrise, cloud half), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:4:63
# text = Already there The greedy, youngling sunrise made his feast, Though still in cloud half muffled was the east.
1	Already	already	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
3	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	greedy	greedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	youngling	youngling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	17	nsubj	_	_
17	muffled	muffle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the greedy youngling sunrise | Breeze's feast |  | there |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset feast=Product |
| 2 | **muffle** | past | cloud half |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | the east |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/4/61/)
- next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/4/63/)
- ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/4/)