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title: Cleave the blue mere, or on through ether sail; No more his loved on… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Cleave the blue mere, or on through ether sail; No more his loved ones, but a dolorous tale!’ Who acts: you. 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 66

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Cleave the blue mere, or on through ether sail; No more his loved ones, but a dolorous tale!’

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**Who acts:** you · **What happens:** cleave, love · **To what, where:** blue mere, ether sail

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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 (you), 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:pg78491:8:66
# text = Cleave the blue mere, or on through ether sail; No more his loved ones, but a dolorous tale!’
1	Cleave	cleave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	blue	blue	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	mere	mere	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	ether	ether	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	sail	sail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
13	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	loved	love	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	dolorous	dolorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	tale	tale	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cleave** | imperative | you *not said here* | the blue mere |  | ether sail |  | King's more loved ones  a dolorous tale *parataxis* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mere=Patient |
| 2 | **love** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: 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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