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title: But, forward as they toiled, that flood ere long Deepened, so seemed… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But, forward as they toiled, that flood ere long Deepened, so seemed it, to a billowy sea; And they, with arms in swimmer’s act forth flung, Clave that imagined deep. Who acts: hills, that, Clave, swimmer. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 56

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But, forward as they toiled, that flood ere long Deepened, so seemed it, to a billowy sea; And they, with arms in swimmer’s act forth flung, Clave that imagined deep.

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**Who acts:** hills, that, Clave, swimmer · **What happens:** toil, flood, deepen, seem, fling, imagine · **To what, where:** plain, Clave

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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 (hills, that, Clave, swimmer), 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:pg78491:7:56
# text = But, forward as they toiled, that flood ere long Deepened, so seemed it, to a billowy sea; And they, with arms in swimmer’s act forth flung, Clave that imagined deep.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	toiled	toil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	flood	flood	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
10	ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
12	Deepened	deepen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	billowy	billowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
23	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	swimmer	swimmer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	act	act	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
32	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	Clave	clave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	37	nsubj	_	_
37	imagined	imagine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	35	acl:relcl	_	_
38	deep	deep	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **toil** | past | hills *= hill* |  |  |  |  | forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **flood** | present | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **deepen** | participle | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **seem** | past |  | plain |  |  |  | to a billowy sea | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute |
| 5 | **fling** | past | hills *= hill* | Clave |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clave=Theme |
| 6 | **imagine** | past | Clave |  |  |  |  | deep *property* | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 7 | **act** |  | swimmer |  |  |  |  |  | nom act «communication intransitive»: 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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