--- title: ‘All night I saw three birds from Erin’s peaks To Alba strain throug… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: ‘All night I saw three birds from Erin’s peaks To Alba strain through tempest and eclipse: Three honey-drops they wafted on their beaks:-- O Love! they dropped that sweetness on thy lips; Ere long each death-black beak, and crownèd head With life-blood from thy heart, O Love, was red!’ Who acts: I, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/5/74/) [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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/5/) / 74 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 74 ‘All night I saw three birds from Erin’s peaks To Alba strain through tempest and eclipse: Three honey-drops they wafted on their beaks:-- O Love! they dropped that sweetness on thy lips; Ere long each death-black beak, and crownèd head With life-blood from thy heart, O Love, was red!’ **Who acts:** I, Three honey drops, Love · **What happens:** see, waft, drop, be · **To what, where:** three birds, peaks, beaks, lips 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 (I, Three honey drops, Love), 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:pg78491:5:74 # text = ‘All night I saw three birds from Erin’s peaks To Alba strain through tempest and eclipse: Three honey-drops they wafted on their beaks:-- O Love! they dropped that sweetness on thy lips; Ere long each death-black beak, and crownèd head With life-blood from thy heart, O Love, was red!’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 3 det _ _ 3 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl:unmarked _ _ 4 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 5 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 7 nummod _ _ 7 birds bird NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 9 Erin Erin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ’s 's PART POS _ 9 case _ _ 11 peaks peak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 12 To to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 Alba Alba PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 strain strain NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nmod _ _ 15 through through ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 tempest tempest NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 eclipse eclipse NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 20 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 23 nummod _ _ 21 honey honey NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 drops drop NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 nsubj _ _ 24 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 wafted waft VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 beaks beak NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 30 -- -- PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 O of ADP IN Abbr=Yes 32 case _ _ 32 Love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ! ! PUNCT . _ 32 punct _ _ 34 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 35 dropped drop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 36 that that SCONJ IN _ 37 mark _ _ 37 sweetness sweetness NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 advcl _ _ 38 on on ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 lips lip NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ; ; PUNCT : _ 48 punct _ _ 42 Ere ere ADV RB _ 43 advmod _ _ 43 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 48 advmod _ _ 44 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 48 det _ _ 45 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 46 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 black black ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 48 amod _ _ 48 beak beak NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 52 cc _ _ 51 crownèd crownèd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 appos _ _ 53 With with ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 54 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 56 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 55 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 54 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 56 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nmod _ _ 57 from from ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 58 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 59 nmod:poss _ _ 59 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 60 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 61 O O PROPN NNP Number=Sing 62 compound _ _ 62 Love Love PROPN NNP Number=Sing 59 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 63 , , PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ _ 64 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 65 cop _ _ 65 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 66 ! ! PUNCT . _ 65 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 67 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | I | three birds | | Erin's peaks to Alba strain through tempest and eclipse | night | each black beak *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus | | 2 | **waft** | past | Three honey drops | | | drops's beaks | | drops *= drop* *nsubj* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on beak=Location | | 3 | **drop** | past | Love | | | thy lips | | drops *= drop* *nsubj*; sweetness *advcl* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on lip=Trajectory | | 4 | **is** | past | | | | | | red *property* | tree rules | 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 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/5/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/5/75/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/5/)