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title: Love’s ‘stormy southwind’ three glad years had blown: Then Fate, tha… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Love’s ‘stormy southwind’ three glad years had blown: Then Fate, that rules the nations, claimed her own. Who acts: Love, stormy southwind, that. 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 p
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 11

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Love’s ‘stormy southwind’ three glad years had blown: Then Fate, that rules the nations, claimed her own.

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**Who acts:** Love, stormy southwind, that · **What happens:** southwind, blow, rule, claim · **To what, where:** three glad years, nations, own

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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: who acts (Love, stormy southwind, that), 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:pg78491:5:11
# text = Love’s ‘stormy southwind’ three glad years had blown: Then Fate, that rules the nations, claimed her own.
1	Love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	’s	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
3	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	stormy	stormy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	southwind	southwind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
7	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
8	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
14	Fate	Fate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	rules	rule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	nations	nation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
21	claimed	claim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **southwind** |  | Love |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **blow** | past · perfect · passive | stormy southwind *not said here* | three glad years |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **rule** |  | that | the nations |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **claim** *speech: other* | past | stormy southwind | Love's own |  |  |  | Fate and rules *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent own=Topic |

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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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