--- title: A Spirit of strength and swiftness onward borne Through luminous rea… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: A Spirit of strength and swiftness onward borne Through luminous realms, all resonant and free, Happier because unwinged, like endless morn With silver feet circling the spherèd sea: And still her lonely thought with song was blent; And bird-like still she warbled as she went. Who acts: silver feet, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/4/8/) [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/) / 8 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 8 A Spirit of strength and swiftness onward borne Through luminous realms, all resonant and free, Happier because unwinged, like endless morn With silver feet circling the spherèd sea: And still her lonely thought with song was blent; And bird-like still she warbled as she went. **Who acts:** silver feet, lonely thought, spirit · **What happens:** bear, circle, be, warble, go, think · **To what, where:** swiftness, luminous realms, spherèd sea 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 (silver feet, lonely thought, spirit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78491:4:8 # text = A Spirit of strength and swiftness onward borne Through luminous realms, all resonant and free, Happier because unwinged, like endless morn With silver feet circling the spherèd sea: And still her lonely thought with song was blent; And bird-like still she warbled as she went. 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Spirit Spirit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 swiftness swiftness NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 7 onward onward ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ _ 8 borne bear VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ _ 9 Through through ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 luminous luminous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 realms realm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 14 det _ _ 14 resonant resonant NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 free free ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 Happier happy ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 4 conj _ _ 19 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 20 unwinged unwinged ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 like like ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 endless endless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 morn morn NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 25 With with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 silver silver NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 compound _ _ 27 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 nmod _ _ 28 circling circle VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 acl _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 spherèd spherèd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 : : PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 33 And and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 34 still still ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 35 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 36 lonely lonely ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 thought thought NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 38 with with ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ _ 40 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 41 blent blent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ; ; PUNCT , _ 46 punct _ _ 43 And and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 44 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 45 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 parataxis _ _ 47 still still ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 48 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 49 warbled warble VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 46 acl:relcl _ _ 50 as as SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ _ 51 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 52 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 49 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bear** | participle | | swiftness *not said here* | | luminous realms | | onward *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **circle** | gerund | silver feet *not said here* | the spherèd sea | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Co-Theme | | 3 | **is** | past | spirit's lonely thought *not said here* | | | | | with song; blent *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **warble** | past | spirit | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **go** | past | spirit | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **think** | | spirit | | | | | | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/4/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/4/9/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/4/)