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title: Ah sheer descent from topmost height of good To deepest gulf of angu… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ah sheer descent from topmost height of good To deepest gulf of anguish sudden and strange! Who acts: deepest gulf. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 29

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Ah sheer descent from topmost height of good To deepest gulf of anguish sudden and strange!

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**Who acts:** deepest gulf · **What happens:** anguish · **To what, where:** sheer descent

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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 (deepest gulf), 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:pg78491:8:29
# text = Ah sheer descent from topmost height of good To deepest gulf of anguish sudden and strange!
1	Ah	ah	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
2	sheer	sheer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	descent	descent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	topmost	topmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	nmod	_	_
9	To	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
10	deepest	deep	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	11	amod	_	_
11	gulf	gulf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
12	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	anguish	anguish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **anguish** | infinitive | deepest gulf *not said here* |  |  |  |  | sudden *property* | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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