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title: Then, as a poplar near a river whitens By gusts o’er-blown, and as s… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then, as a poplar near a river whitens By gusts o’er-blown, and as some snowy vale Grows grimly dark when sudden o’er it brightens The mountain’s moonlit flank, thus dark, thus pale, Grew Conor with far eyes their course pursuing; ‘They ’scape,’ he cried, ‘and that is my undoing! Who acts: snowy val
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 39

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Then, as a poplar near a river whitens By gusts o’er-blown, and as some snowy vale Grows grimly dark when sudden o’er it brightens The mountain’s moonlit flank, thus dark, thus pale, Grew Conor with far eyes their course pursuing; ‘They ’scape,’ he cried, ‘and that is my undoing!

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**Who acts:** snowy vale, sudden o’er, hosts, vale, that · **What happens:** whiten, blow, grow, brighten, ', cry · **To what, where:** gusts, moonlit flank, scape, ‘, undoing

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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 (snowy vale, sudden o’er, hosts, vale), 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:pg78491:7:39
# text = Then, as a poplar near a river whitens By gusts o’er-blown, and as some snowy vale Grows grimly dark when sudden o’er it brightens The mountain’s moonlit flank, thus dark, thus pale, Grew Conor with far eyes their course pursuing; ‘They ’scape,’ he cried, ‘and that is my undoing!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	poplar	poplar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
6	near	near	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	whitens	whiten	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	By	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	gusts	gust	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
12	o’er	o'er	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
19	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	vale	vale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	Grows	grow	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
22	grimly	grimly	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	xcomp	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	28	advmod	_	_
25	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	o’er	o'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	brightens	brighten	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	advcl	_	_
29	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’s	's	PART	POS	_	30	case	_	_
32	moonlit	moonlit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	flank	flank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	39	advmod	_	_
39	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
41	Grew	Grew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	advcl	_	_
42	Conor	Conor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	flat	_	_
43	with	with	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obl	_	_
46	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
47	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	compound	_	_
48	pursuing	pursuing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	52	punct	_	_
50	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	52	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
52	’	'	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	scape	scape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	57	punct	_	_
56	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	57	nsubj	_	_
57	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	59	punct	_	_
59	‘	‘	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
61	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	64	nsubj	_	_
62	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	64	cop	_	_
63	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	64	nmod:poss	_	_
64	undoing	undoing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	59	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whiten** | present |  |  |  |  | then | as a poplar near a river; by gusts | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **blow** | participle |  | gusts *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **grow** | present | some snowy vale |  |  |  |  | dark *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **brighten** | present | sudden o’er | the mountain's moonlit flank |  |  |  | o’er *= o'er* *nsubj* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent flank=Patient |
| 5 | **'** | present | hosts *= host* | scape |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | vale | ‘ and my undoing |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **is a** | present | that | my undoing |  |  |  | my *nmod:poss* | 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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