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title: ‘In those dread vaults, Magian and Alchemist, Supreme in every craft… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘In those dread vaults, Magian and Alchemist, Supreme in every craft of brain and hand, The mountains’ mineral veins they beat and twist; And on red anvils forge them spear and brand For some predestined battle. Who acts: mountains, red anvils. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other lege
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 45

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‘In those dread vaults, Magian and Alchemist, Supreme in every craft of brain and hand, The mountains’ mineral veins they beat and twist; And on red anvils forge them spear and brand For some predestined battle.

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**Who acts:** mountains, red anvils · **What happens:** beat, twist, forge, predestine, craft · **To what, where:** mineral veins, mountains, dread vaults, brain

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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 (mountains, red anvils), 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:pg78491:9:45
# text = ‘In those dread vaults, Magian and Alchemist, Supreme in every craft of brain and hand, The mountains’ mineral veins they beat and twist; And on red anvils forge them spear and brand For some predestined battle.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	dread	dread	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	vaults	vault	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	Magian	Magian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	Alchemist	Alchemist	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Supreme	Supreme	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	7	appos	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	craft	craft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	mineral	mineral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	veins	vein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	beat	beat	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	twist	twist	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
30	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	anvils	anvil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	forge	forge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
35	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	brand	brand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
39	For	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	42	det	_	_
41	predestined	predestine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	amod	_	_
42	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **beat** | present | mountains *= mountain* | the mountains's mineral veins *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location vein=Theme |
| 2 | **twist** | present | mountains *= mountain* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **forge** | present | red anvils | mountains *= mountain* |  |  |  | spear and brand *obj* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary spear=Product |
| 4 | **predestine** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **craft** |  |  | brain and hand |  |  |  |  | nom craft «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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