--- title: ‘Lastly three centuries where the Eagle-Crest[19] O’er-looks the wes… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Lastly three centuries where the Eagle-Crest[19] O’er-looks the western deep, and Inisglaire, Upon the mountain waves that know not rest Shall be your rolling palace, foul or fair, Till comes the Tailkenn,[20] sent to sound the knell Of darkness, and ye hear his Christian bell.’ Who acts: Eagle Cre --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/8/72/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The foray of Queen Meave, and other le…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/) / [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/8/) / 72 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 72 ‘Lastly three centuries where the Eagle-Crest\[19\] O’er-looks the western deep, and Inisglaire, Upon the mountain waves that know not rest Shall be your rolling palace, foul or fair, Till comes the Tailkenn,\[20\] sent to sound the knell Of darkness, and ye hear his Christian bell.’ **Who acts:** Eagle Crest, mountain waves, Till, ye · **What happens:** look, not know, rest, roll, be, come · **To what, where:** Inisglaire, rolling palace, Tailkenn, knell, Christian bell, darkness 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 (Eagle Crest, mountain waves, Till, ye), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78491:8:72 # text = ‘Lastly three centuries where the Eagle-Crest[19] O’er-looks the western deep, and Inisglaire, Upon the mountain waves that know not rest Shall be your rolling palace, foul or fair, Till comes the Tailkenn,[20] sent to sound the knell Of darkness, and ye hear his Christian bell.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Lastly lastly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 3 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 4 nummod _ _ 4 centuries century NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ _ 5 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 15 advmod _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 7 Eagle Eagle PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 Crest Crest PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 19 19 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 9 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 11 punct _ _ 13 O’er O'er PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 14 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 13 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 17 western western ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 Inisglaire Inisglaire PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 Upon upon ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 27 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 28 nsubj _ _ 28 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 acl:relcl _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 30 rest rest VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 Shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 32 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 cop _ _ 33 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 34 rolling roll VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 amod _ _ 35 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 37 foul foul ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 38 or or CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 41 Till Till PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 nsubj _ _ 42 comes come VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 44 det _ _ 44 Tailkenn Tailkenn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 [ [ PUNCT -LRB- _ 47 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 20 20 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 44 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ] ] PUNCT -RRB- _ 47 punct _ _ 49 sent send VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 44 acl _ _ 50 to to PART TO _ 51 mark _ _ 51 sound sound VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 49 advcl _ _ 52 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 53 det _ _ 53 knell knell NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obj _ _ 54 Of of ADP IN _ 55 case _ _ 55 darkness darkness NOUN NN Number=Sing 53 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 56 , , PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 58 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 59 nsubj _ _ 59 hear hear VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 60 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 62 nmod:poss _ _ 61 Christian Christian ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 62 amod _ _ 62 bell bell NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 63 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 64 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | the Eagle Crest | Inisglaire | | | century | deep *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | | 2 | **not** **know** | present | the mountain waves | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 3 | **rest** | infinitive | the mountain waves *not said here* | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **roll** | gerund | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | shall | the mountain waves | your rolling palace | | | | your *nmod:poss* | tree rules | | 6 | **come** | present | Till | the Tailkenn | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **send** | participle | | the Tailkenn *not said here* | | | | | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **sound** | to-infinitive | | the knell of darkness | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location knell=Theme | | 9 | **hear** | present | ye | Till's Christian bell | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bell=Stimulus | | 10 | **knell** | | | darkness | | | | | nom knell «event transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 71](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/8/71/) - next →: [sentence 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/8/73/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/8/)