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title: She spoke, and from their silken garb forth-sliding, Ere long those… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: She spoke, and from their silken garb forth-sliding, Ere long those babes were sporting in the bay: And, as it chanced, the eddy past them gliding Wafted a swan’s plume: ’twas less white than they: Frowning, the queen beheld them, and on high Waved thrice her Druid wand athwart the sky: Who acts: pa
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 64

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She spoke, and from their silken garb forth-sliding, Ere long those babes were sporting in the bay: And, as it chanced, the eddy past them gliding Wafted a swan’s plume: ’twas less white than they: Frowning, the queen beheld them, and on high Waved thrice her Druid wand athwart the sky:

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**Who acts:** pastime, silken garb, babes, garb, Druid · **What happens:** speak, slide, sport, chance, waft, behold · **To what, where:** silken garb, Ere, bay, eddy, looks · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (pastime, silken garb, babes, garb), 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:pg78491:8:64
# text = She spoke, and from their silken garb forth-sliding, Ere long those babes were sporting in the bay: And, as it chanced, the eddy past them gliding Wafted a swan’s plume: ’twas less white than they: Frowning, the queen beheld them, and on high Waved thrice her Druid wand athwart the sky:
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spoke	speak	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	garb	garb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
9	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	sliding	slide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Ere	Ere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
14	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	18	advmod	_	_
15	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	babes	babe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	sporting	sport	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	acl:relcl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	bay	bay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
23	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
25	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	chanced	chance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	eddy	eddy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
31	past	past	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	_
33	gliding	glide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	Wafted	waft	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	parataxis	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	swan	swan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’s	's	PART	POS	_	36	case	_	_
38	plume	plume	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
40	’	'	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	appos	_	_
42	less	less	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	43	amod	_	_
43	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
44	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
45	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
47	Frowning	Frowning	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
50	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	appos	_	_
51	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	advcl	_	_
52	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
55	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	57	mark	_	_
56	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
57	Waved	wave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	_
58	thrice	thrice	SCONJ	IN	_	61	mark	_	_
59	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	60	nmod:poss	_	_
60	Druid	druid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nsubj	_	_
61	wand	wan	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	57	advcl	_	_
62	athwart	athwart	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
65	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | past | pastime | looks's silken garb |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **slide** | gerund | looks's silken garb *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sport** | past · progressive | that babes | Ere *not said here* |  | the bay |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **chance** | past | garb |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **waft** | gerund · passive |  | the eddy past looks |  |  |  | a swan's plume *obj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **behold** | past | babes *= babe* | looks *= look* |  |  |  | Frowning *nsubj* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
| 7 | **wave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **wan** | past | pastime's Druid |  |  |  |  | athwart the sky | 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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