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title: Round Erin’s northern coasts they drifted on From Rathlin isle to Fa… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Round Erin’s northern coasts they drifted on From Rathlin isle to Fanad’s beetling crest, And where, in frowning sunset steeped, forth shone The ‘Bloody Foreland,’ gazing t’ward the west; Yet still with duteous hearts to Moyle returned-- To love their place of penance they had learned. Who acts: gro
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 77

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Round Erin’s northern coasts they drifted on From Rathlin isle to Fanad’s beetling crest, And where, in frowning sunset steeped, forth shone The ‘Bloody Foreland,’ gazing t’ward the west; Yet still with duteous hearts to Moyle returned-- To love their place of penance they had learned.

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**Who acts:** growths, sunset, duteous hearts · **What happens:** drift, frown, steep, shine, gaze, return · **To what, where:** Rathlin isle, Bloody Foreland, west, place, penance

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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 (growths, sunset, duteous hearts), 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:pg78491:9:78
# text = Round Erin’s northern coasts they drifted on From Rathlin isle to Fanad’s beetling crest, And where, in frowning sunset steeped, forth shone The ‘Bloody Foreland,’ gazing t’ward the west; Yet still with duteous hearts to Moyle returned-- To love their place of penance they had learned.
1	Round	round	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	northern	northern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	coasts	coast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	drifted	drift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	From	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Rathlin	Rathlin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	isle	isle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	Fanad	Fanad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	beetling	beetling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	crest	crest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
22	frowning	frown	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
23	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	steeped	steep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
28	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
29	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	Bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	Foreland	Foreland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	34	punct	_	_
34	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
35	t’ward	t'ward	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
40	still	still	ADV	RB	_	43	advmod	_	_
41	with	with	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	duteous	duteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	nsubj	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	Moyle	Moyle	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
46	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
48	To	to	PART	TO	_	49	mark	_	_
49	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	advcl	_	_
50	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
51	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obj	_	_
52	of	of	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	penance	penance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	nmod	_	_
54	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	nsubj	_	_
55	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	56	aux	_	_
56	learned	learn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	53	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drift** | past | growths *= growth* |  |  | Rathlin isle to Fanad's beetling crest |  | round Erin's northern coasts | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme round coast=Source on isle=Trajectory |
| 2 | **frown** | gerund | growths *= growth* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **steep** | past | sunset |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **shine** | past | growths *= growth* *not said here* | the Bloody Foreland |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent foreland=Theme |
| 5 | **gaze** | gerund | growths *= growth* *not said here* | the west |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **return** | past | duteous hearts to Moyle |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **love** | to-infinitive | duteous hearts to Moyle *not said here* | growths's place of penance |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus |
| 8 | **learn** | past · perfect | growths *= growth* | penance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penance=Topic |

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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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