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title: Therefore next morn when earliest sunrise smote Green mead to golden… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Therefore next morn when earliest sunrise smote Green mead to golden near the full-fed stream, They caught four steeds that grazed thereby remote, And yoked abreast beside the chariot beam; And when the sun was sinking toward the West By Darvra’s lake drew rein, and made their rest. Who acts: earlie
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 59

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Therefore next morn when earliest sunrise smote Green mead to golden near the full-fed stream, They caught four steeds that grazed thereby remote, And yoked abreast beside the chariot beam; And when the sun was sinking toward the West By Darvra’s lake drew rein, and made their rest.

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**Who acts:** earliest sunrise, vaults, four steeds, sun, sinking · **What happens:** smite, feed, catch, graze, yoke, sink · **To what, where:** Green mead, fed stream, four steeds, chariot beam, rein, rest

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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 (earliest sunrise, vaults, four steeds, sun), 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:pg78491:8:59
# text = Therefore next morn when earliest sunrise smote Green mead to golden near the full-fed stream, They caught four steeds that grazed thereby remote, And yoked abreast beside the chariot beam; And when the sun was sinking toward the West By Darvra’s lake drew rein, and made their rest.
1	Therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	morn	morn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
5	earliest	early	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	Green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	mead	mead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	_
12	near	near	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
14	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	fed	feed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
17	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
21	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	_
24	grazed	graze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	thereby	thereby	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	remote	remote	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	yoked	yoke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
30	abreast	abreast	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	beam	beam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	49	punct	_	_
36	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
37	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	41	advmod	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	sinking	sink	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	49	csubj	_	_
42	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	West	West	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	By	by	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
46	Darvra	Darvra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	48	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	’s	's	PART	POS	_	46	case	_	_
48	lake	lake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
49	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
50	rein	rein	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	conj	_	_
54	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smite** | past | earliest sunrise | Green mead |  | the fed stream |  | to golden *result* | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent mead=Patient to golden=Result |
| 2 | **feed** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **catch** | past | vaults *= vault* | four steeds |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Theme |
| 4 | **graze** | past | four steeds |  |  |  |  | remote *property* | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **yoke** | past | vaults *= vault* *not said here* |  |  | the chariot beam |  | abreast *property* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **sink** | past · progressive | the sun |  |  |  |  | toward the West; by Darvra's lake | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 7 | **draw** | past | sinking | rein |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rein=Theme |
| 8 | **make** | past | sinking *not said here* | vaults's rest |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rest=Product |

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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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