--- title: ‘Devise we swiftly if, through God’s high Will, Billow or blast divi… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Devise we swiftly if, through God’s high Will, Billow or blast divides us each from each, Some refuge-house wherein, when winds are still, To meet once more--low rock or sandy beach:’ And answer thus they made: ‘One spot alone This night can yield us refuge, Carickrone.’ Who acts: Devise, winds, ’, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/9/62/) [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 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/9/) / 62 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 62 ‘Devise we swiftly if, through God’s high Will, Billow or blast divides us each from each, Some refuge-house wherein, when winds are still, To meet once more--low rock or sandy beach:’ And answer thus they made: ‘One spot alone This night can yield us refuge, Carickrone.’ **Who acts:** Devise, winds, ’, One spot · **What happens:** divide, be, meet, make, yield, refuge · **To what, where:** us, low rock 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 (Devise, winds, ’, One spot), 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:pg78491:9:63 # text = ‘Devise we swiftly if, through God’s high Will, Billow or blast divides us each from each, Some refuge-house wherein, when winds are still, To meet once more--low rock or sandy beach:’ And answer thus they made: ‘One spot alone This night can yield us refuge, Carickrone.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Devise devise NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 3 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 4 swiftly swiftly ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 5 if if SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 through through ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ’s 's PART POS _ 8 case _ _ 10 high high NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 Will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Billow Billow PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 14 or or CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 blast blast NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 16 divides divide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 17 nmod:unmarked _ _ 19 from from ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 22 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 25 det _ _ 23 refuge refuge NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 24 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 parataxis _ _ 26 wherein wherein ADV WRB PronType=Int 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 when when SCONJ WRB _ 31 mark _ _ 29 winds wind NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 30 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 cop _ _ 31 still still ADV RB _ 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 To to PART TO _ 34 mark _ _ 34 meet meet VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ _ 35 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 36 advmod _ _ 36 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 34 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 37 -- -- PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 obl _ _ 40 or or CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 41 sandy sandy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 beach beach NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 : : PUNCT : _ 44 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ’ ' NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nsubj _ _ 45 And and CCONJ CC _ 46 cc _ _ 46 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 conj _ _ 47 thus thus ADV RB _ 49 advmod _ _ 48 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 49 nsubj _ _ 49 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 50 : : PUNCT : _ 58 punct _ _ 51 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 53 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 52 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 53 nummod _ _ 53 spot spot NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 nsubj _ _ 54 alone alone ADV RB _ 53 advmod _ _ 55 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 56 det _ _ 56 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 nsubj _ _ 57 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 58 aux _ _ 58 yield yield VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 49 advcl _ _ 59 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 58 obj _ _ 60 refuge refuge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 58 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 61 , , PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 62 Carickrone Carickrone PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 63 . . PUNCT . _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 64 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **divide** | present | Devise Billow or blast | us | | | | from each; some refuge house *parataxis* | vn separate-23.1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent we=Patient from each=Co-Patient | | 2 | **is** | present | winds | | | | | still *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **meet** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **make** | past | ’ and answer | low rock or sandy beach | | | | thus *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 5 | **yield** | can | One spot | us | | | | Carickrone *obl* | tree rules | | 6 | **refuge** | infinitive | One spot *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | 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 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/9/61/) - next →: [sentence 63](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/9/63/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/9/)