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title: ‘Some say that, mid the mountains’ sunless walls, They throng beneat… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Some say that, mid the mountains’ sunless walls, They throng beneath their stony firmament, An iron-handed race. Who acts: Some, walls. 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 pragmatics
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 43

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‘Some say that, mid the mountains’ sunless walls, They throng beneath their stony firmament, An iron-handed race.

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**Who acts:** Some, walls · **What happens:** say, throng, hand · **To what, where:** that, stony firmament · **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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Some, walls), 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:pg78491:9:43
# text = ‘Some say that, mid the mountains’ sunless walls, They throng beneath their stony firmament, An iron-handed race.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	say	say	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	mid	mid	X	AFX	_	3	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	’	's	PART	POS	_	8	case	_	_
10	sunless	sunless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	throng	throng	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	stony	stony	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	firmament	firmament	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
21	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | Some | that |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic |
| 2 | **throng** | present | walls *= wall* |  |  | walls's stony firmament |  |  | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath firmament=Location |
| 3 | **hand** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | iron *compound* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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