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title: O joy his course through woodland gulfs to follow, Deirdré and they,… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: O joy his course through woodland gulfs to follow, Deirdré and they, to Etive’s salt sea lake! A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 5, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 1

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O joy his course through woodland gulfs to follow, Deirdré and they, to Etive’s salt sea lake!

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**What happens:** follow · **To what, where:** joy

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg78491:5:1
# text = O joy his course through woodland gulfs to follow, Deirdré and they, to Etive’s salt sea lake!
1	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	2	discourse	_	_
2	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	woodland	woodland	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	gulfs	gulf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Deirdré	Deirdré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	Etive	Etive	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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