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title: What time, forth sliding from the Eternal Gates, The centuries three… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: What time, forth sliding from the Eternal Gates, The centuries three on earth had lived and died, Thus spake Finola to her snowy mates, ‘No more in this soft haven may we bide: The second Woe succeeds; that heavier toil On Alba’s waves, the black sea-strait of Moyle.’ Who acts: time, three, No, seco
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 48

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What time, forth sliding from the Eternal Gates, The centuries three on earth had lived and died, Thus spake Finola to her snowy mates, ‘No more in this soft haven may we bide: The second Woe succeeds; that heavier toil On Alba’s waves, the black sea-strait of Moyle.’

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**Who acts:** time, three, No, second Woe, Alba · **What happens:** slide, live, die, speak, bide, succeed · **To what, where:** Eternal Gates, Finola, time · **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 (time, three, No, second Woe), 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:pg78491:9:49
# text = What time, forth sliding from the Eternal Gates, The centuries three on earth had lived and died, Thus spake Finola to her snowy mates, ‘No more in this soft haven may we bide: The second Woe succeeds; that heavier toil On Alba’s waves, the black sea-strait of Moyle.’
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	sliding	slide	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Eternal	Eternal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	Gates	Gates	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl:unmarked	_	_
13	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nsubj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	lived	live	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	spake	speak	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
23	Finola	Finola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	mates	mate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
29	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	38	nsubj:outer	_	_
31	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	30	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
34	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	haven	haven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
36	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
37	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	bide	bide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
40	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	42	amod	_	_
42	Woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nsubj	_	_
43	succeeds	succeed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	47	punct	_	_
45	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	47	det	_	_
46	heavier	heavy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	47	amod	_	_
47	toil	toil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
48	On	on	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
49	Alba	Alba	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	51	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	’s	's	PART	POS	_	49	case	_	_
51	waves	wave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
53	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
54	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	57	amod	_	_
55	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	55	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	strait	strait	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	appos	_	_
58	of	of	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	Moyle	Moyle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	57	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	57	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	47	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **slide** | gerund | what time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **live** | past · perfect | three |  |  | the Eternal Gates | century | on earth | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on earth=Location |
| 3 | **die** | past | three *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | infinitive | three *not said here* | Finola |  |  |  | to Finola's snowy mates; thus *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **bide** | may | No |  |  |  |  | we *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **succeed** | present | the second Woe |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **wave** |  | Alba |  |  |  |  |  | nom wave «event transitive»: poss=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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