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title: The Gael sailed forth, nine waves; then turned, and gazed-- Night wr… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Gael sailed forth, nine waves; then turned, and gazed-- Night wrapt the isle, and storm by magic raised! Who acts: Gael, Night, storm, magic. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the p
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 2

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The Gael sailed forth, nine waves; then turned, and gazed-- Night wrapt the isle, and storm by magic raised!

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**Who acts:** Gael, Night, storm, magic · **What happens:** sail, turn, gaze, wrapt, raise, storm · **To what, where:** nine waves, isle

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gael, Night, storm, magic), 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:pg78491:8:2
# text = The Gael sailed forth, nine waves; then turned, and gazed-- Night wrapt the isle, and storm by magic raised!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Gael	Gael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sailed	sail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	nine	nine	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Night	Night	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	wrapt	wrapt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	isle	isle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	magic	magic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sail** | past | the Gael | nine waves |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **turn** | past | the Gael *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **gaze** | past | the Gael *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wrapt** | present | Night | the isle |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **raise** | participle | storm by magic |  |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **storm** |  | magic |  |  |  |  |  | nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: by=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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