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title: Through it they pushed with pain: And on their eyes a phantom mist w… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Through it they pushed with pain: And on their eyes a phantom mist was driven: And o’er them leaned, low-hung, a phantom heaven. Who acts: plain, hills. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree an
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 55

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Through it they pushed with pain: And on their eyes a phantom mist was driven: And o’er them leaned, low-hung, a phantom heaven.

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**Who acts:** plain, hills · **What happens:** push, drive, o'er, learn, hang · **To what, where:** phantom mist, eyes, phantom heaven

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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 (plain, hills), 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:pg78491:7:55
# text = Through it they pushed with pain: And on their eyes a phantom mist was driven: And o’er them leaned, low-hung, a phantom heaven.
1	Through	through	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pushed	push	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
8	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	phantom	phantom	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	o’er	o'er	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	leaned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	hung	hang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	phantom	phantom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | past | plain |  |  |  |  | with pain; hills *= hill* *nsubj* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drive** | past · passive |  | a phantom mist |  | hills's eyes |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on eye=Destination |
| 3 | **o'er** | infinitive | plain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **learn** | past | hills *= hill* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hang** | participle |  | a phantom heaven |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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