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description: The warrior eyed them long with bitter smile; Few words he spake: ‘At fifty thousand men I count them.’ Who acts: warrior, I. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 108

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The warrior eyed them long with bitter smile; Few words he spake: ‘At fifty thousand men I count them.’

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**Who acts:** warrior, I · **What happens:** eye, speak, count · **To what, where:** hosts · **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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (warrior, I), 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:pg78491:11:110
# text = The warrior eyed them long with bitter smile; Few words he spake: ‘At fifty thousand men I count them.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	eyed	eye	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	Few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	At	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	compound	_	_
18	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	nummod	_	_
19	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	count	count	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **eye** | past | the warrior | hosts *= host* |  |  |  | with bitter smile; Few words *obj*; long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **speak** *speech: other* |  | warrior |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **count** | present | I | hosts *= host* |  |  |  | at thousand men | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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