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title: Ere long their march was through the misty highlands: They tracked G… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ere long their march was through the misty highlands: They tracked Glenorchy’s immemorial woods; Loch Lomond’s bosky mountain-skirts and islands; Birch-braided Katrine’s sylvan solitudes; And where on shores of Fyne, now low now higher, With punctual tide the salt sea floods respire. Who acts: long 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 80

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Ere long their march was through the misty highlands: They tracked Glenorchy’s immemorial woods; Loch Lomond’s bosky mountain-skirts and islands; Birch-braided Katrine’s sylvan solitudes; And where on shores of Fyne, now low now higher, With punctual tide the salt sea floods respire.

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**Who acts:** long march, brothers, sea floods · **What happens:** be, track, braid, respire · **To what, where:** misty highlands, immemorial woods, sylvan solitudes, punctual tide

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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 (long march, brothers, sea floods), 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:pg78491:4:81
# text = Ere long their march was through the misty highlands: They tracked Glenorchy’s immemorial woods; Loch Lomond’s bosky mountain-skirts and islands; Birch-braided Katrine’s sylvan solitudes; And where on shores of Fyne, now low now higher, With punctual tide the salt sea floods respire.
1	Ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADJ	RB	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	march	march	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	misty	misty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	highlands	highland	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	tracked	track	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	Glenorchy	Glenorchy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	immemorial	immemorial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
18	Loch	Loch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	_
19	Lomond	Lomond	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
21	bosky	bosky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	skirts	skirt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	islands	island	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
28	Birch	birch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	braided	braid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
31	Katrine	Katrine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	sylvan	sylvan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	solitudes	solitude	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
36	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	9	nmod	_	_
38	on	on	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Fyne	Fyne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	46	advmod	_	_
44	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	46	advmod	_	_
45	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	46	advmod	_	_
46	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	With	with	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	punctual	punctual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	tide	tide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
52	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	compound	_	_
53	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	floods	flood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nsubj	_	_
55	respire	respire	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | brothers's long march |  |  | the misty highlands and Loch's bosky mountain skirts and islands |  | Loch's bosky mountain skirts and islands *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **track** | past | brothers *= brother* | Glenorchy's immemorial woods |  |  |  |  | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme |
| 3 | **braid** | participle | brothers's long march *not said here* | Katrine's sylvan solitudes |  |  |  | Birch *compound* | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent solitude=Patient |
| 4 | **respire** | present | the sea floods | punctual tide *not said here* |  |  |  |  | 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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