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title: These, when the white fleet of the Gael drew nigh Green Erin’s shore… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: These, when the white fleet of the Gael drew nigh Green Erin’s shore, their heritage decreed, O’er-meshed, through rites unholy, earth and sky With sudden gloom. Who acts: These, heritage. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening,
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 107

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These, when the white fleet of the Gael drew nigh Green Erin’s shore, their heritage decreed, O’er-meshed, through rites unholy, earth and sky With sudden gloom.

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**Who acts:** These, heritage · **What happens:** draw, decree, mesh · **To what, where:** shore, rites

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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 (These, heritage), 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:pg78491:7:111
# text = These, when the white fleet of the Gael drew nigh Green Erin’s shore, their heritage decreed, O’er-meshed, through rites unholy, earth and sky With sudden gloom.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
3	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Gael	Gael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	Green	Green	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	heritage	heritage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	decreed	decree	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	O’er	O'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	meshed	mesh	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	rites	rite	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
27	unholy	unholy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	_
32	With	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	gloom	gloom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | These | Green Erin's shore and earth with sudden gloom and sky |  |  |  | the white fleet of the Gael *nsubj*; nigh *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shore=Theme |
| 2 | **decree** | past | Gael's heritage | Green Erin's shore and earth with sudden gloom and sky *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shore=Theme |
| 3 | **mesh** | participle | Gael's heritage *not said here* |  |  | rites |  | O’er *compound*; unholy *property* | tree rules |

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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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