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title: Responded, from the blue deeps landward rolling; The wave of Toth on… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Responded, from the blue deeps landward rolling; The wave of Toth on Erin’s northern coast; Green Clidna’s wave like funeral bells far tolling; And Rory’s wave, the loudest. Who acts: funeral bells, Green Clidna, Rory. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic ag
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 10

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Responded, from the blue deeps landward rolling; The wave of Toth on Erin’s northern coast; Green Clidna’s wave like funeral bells far tolling; And Rory’s wave, the loudest.

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**Who acts:** funeral bells, Green Clidna, Rory · **What happens:** respond, toll, wave · **To what, where:** wave, blue deeps, Toth, northern coast

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (funeral bells, Green Clidna, Rory), 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:pg78491:7:10
# text = Responded, from the blue deeps landward rolling; The wave of Toth on Erin’s northern coast; Green Clidna’s wave like funeral bells far tolling; And Rory’s wave, the loudest.
1	Responded	respond	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	deeps	deep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
7	landward	landward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	rolling	rolling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Toth	Toth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	Green	Green	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Clidna	Clidna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
24	like	like	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	bells	bell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	_
27	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	28	advmod	_	_
28	tolling	toll	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	26	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
30	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
31	Rory	Rory	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	loudest	loud	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **respond** *speech: other* | participle |  | the wave of Toth on Erin's northern coast |  | the blue deeps and landward rolling |  | Green Clidna's wave like funeral bells *obl* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **toll** | gerund | funeral bells *not said here* |  |  |  |  | far *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **wave** |  |  | Toth |  | Erin's northern coast |  |  | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient on=place |
| 4 | **wave** |  | Green Clidna |  |  |  |  | like funeral bells | nom wave «event transitive»: poss=agent like=obl |
| 5 | **wave** |  | Rory |  |  |  |  |  | nom wave «event transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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