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title: Forth they rushed-- There stood he, bright and calm, his rigid hands… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Forth they rushed-- There stood he, bright and calm, his rigid hands Clasping the dead hound’s throat! Who acts: king, rigid hands. 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 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 136

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Forth they rushed-- There stood he, bright and calm, his rigid hands Clasping the dead hound’s throat!

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**Who acts:** king, rigid hands · **What happens:** rush, stand, clasp · **To what, where:** boy, throat

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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 (king, rigid hands), 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:pg78491:11:138
# text = Forth they rushed-- There stood he, bright and calm, his rigid hands Clasping the dead hound’s throat!
1	Forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	6	expl	_	_
6	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	parataxis	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	rigid	rigid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	Clasping	clasp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | past | king |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | king *not said here* | boy |  | there |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 3 | **clasp** | gerund | boy's rigid hands | the dead hound's throat |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throat=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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