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title: This day the bolt is launched from yonder sky: This day the Destiny… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: This day the bolt is launched from yonder sky: This day the Destiny foretold beginneth: Woe to the Three! Who acts: day. 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 72

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This day the bolt is launched from yonder sky: This day the Destiny foretold beginneth: Woe to the Three!

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**Who acts:** day · **What happens:** launch, foretell, begin · **To what, where:** bolt, sky, Destiny, Woe

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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 (day), 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:pg78491:5:72
# text = This day the bolt is launched from yonder sky: This day the Destiny foretold beginneth: Woe to the Three!
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	bolt	bolt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	launched	launch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Destiny	Destiny	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	_
15	foretold	foretell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	beginneth	begin	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Three	Three	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **launch** | present · passive |  | the bolt |  | sky | day |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from sky=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **foretell** | participle | this day *not said here* | the Destiny |  |  |  |  | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **begin** | present | this day | Woe |  |  |  | to the Three | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woe=Eventuality |

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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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