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title: Round Erin’s shores like leaves their ships were blown: Strewn on he… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Round Erin’s shores like leaves their ships were blown: Strewn on her reefs lay bard and warrior drowned: Not less the Gael upreared ere long that throne Two thousand years through all the West renowned. Who acts: reefs, bard, Gael, West. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 3

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Round Erin’s shores like leaves their ships were blown: Strewn on her reefs lay bard and warrior drowned: Not less the Gael upreared ere long that throne Two thousand years through all the West renowned.

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**Who acts:** reefs, bard, Gael, West · **What happens:** blow, lie, drown, uprear, renown · **To what, where:** ships

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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 (reefs, bard, Gael, West), 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:pg78491:8:3
# text = Round Erin’s shores like leaves their ships were blown: Strewn on her reefs lay bard and warrior drowned: Not less the Gael upreared ere long that throne Two thousand years through all the West renowned.
1	Round	round	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	leaves	leaf	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	ships	ship	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	blown	blow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Strewn	Strewn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	reefs	reef	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
17	bard	bard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
20	drowned	drown	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	23	advmod	_	_
23	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	26	advmod	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	Gael	Gael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	upreared	uprear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
27	ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
29	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
31	Two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	flat	_	_
32	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	appos	_	_
33	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	advcl	_	_
34	through	through	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
35	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	38	det:predet	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
38	renowned	renown	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **blow** | past · passive |  | leaves's ships |  |  |  | round Erin's shores like leaves; Strewn *obl* | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **lie** | past | Strewn's reefs |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **drown** | past | bard and warrior |  |  |  |  |  | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **uprear** | past | the Gael |  |  |  |  | less, long *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **renown** | past | the West |  |  |  |  |  | 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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