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title: And answered she: ‘The shape of Spirits Accursed that ride the storm… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And answered she: ‘The shape of Spirits Accursed that ride the storm:’ And he: ‘Be thine henceforth that demon form!’ Who acts: Spirits, shape. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pra
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 27

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And answered she: ‘The shape of Spirits Accursed that ride the storm:’ And he: ‘Be thine henceforth that demon form!’

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**Who acts:** Spirits, shape · **What happens:** answer, accurs, ride, be · **To what, where:** flight, Spirits, storm, demon form

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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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Spirits, shape), 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:pg78491:9:27
# text = And answered she: ‘The shape of Spirits Accursed that ride the storm:’ And he: ‘Be thine henceforth that demon form!’
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	shape	shape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
10	Accursed	accurs	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	ride	ride	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’	'	SYM	NFP	_	7	discourse	_	_
17	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
20	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	cop	_	_
22	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	26	nmod:poss	_	_
23	henceforth	henceforth	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
25	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past |  |  | flight |  |  | the shape of Spirits *parataxis* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality |
| 2 | **accurs** | participle |  | Spirits *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **ride** | present | Spirits | the storm |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storm=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | infinitive | shape | thine demon form |  |  |  | thine *nmod:poss*; henceforth *property* | 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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