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title: An hour passed by And Meave had reached the spot. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: An hour passed by And Meave had reached the spot. Who acts: hour, Meave. 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 clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 162

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An hour passed by And Meave had reached the spot.

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**Who acts:** hour, Meave · **What happens:** pass by, reach · **To what, where:** spot

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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 (hour, Meave), 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:pg78491:11:164
# text = An hour passed by And Meave had reached the spot.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	obl	_	_
5	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	reached	reach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass by** | participle | a hour |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **reach** | past · perfect | Meave | the spot |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent spot=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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