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title: They spake, and sudden thunder shook the world, And blackness wrappe… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: They spake, and sudden thunder shook the world, And blackness wrapped the seas, and lightnings rent; And each from each abroad those swans were hurled By solid water-scud. Who acts: ’, sudden thunder, blackness, lightnings. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's hero
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 63

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They spake, and sudden thunder shook the world, And blackness wrapped the seas, and lightnings rent; And each from each abroad those swans were hurled By solid water-scud.

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**Who acts:** ’, sudden thunder, blackness, lightnings, solid water scud · **What happens:** speak, shake, wrap, rent, hurl · **To what, where:** world, seas, each · **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 (’, sudden thunder, blackness, lightnings), 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:pg78491:9:64
# text = They spake, and sudden thunder shook the world, And blackness wrapped the seas, and lightnings rent; And each from each abroad those swans were hurled By solid water-scud.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	spake	speak	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	shook	shake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	blackness	blackness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	wrapped	wrap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	lightnings	lightning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	rent	rent	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
21	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
22	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	nmod	_	_
25	abroad	abroad	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
26	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
27	swans	swan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	hurled	hurl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
30	By	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
31	solid	solid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
32	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	scud	scud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | present | ’ *= '* |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **shake** | past | sudden thunder | the world |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent world=Patient |
| 3 | **wrap** | past | blackness | the seas |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent sea=Theme |
| 4 | **rent** | present | lightnings |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **hurl** | past · passive | solid water scud | each from each |  |  |  | that swans *nsubj*; abroad *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

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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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