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title: Chief following chief Drew near in turn; yet none could drag from ea… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Chief following chief Drew near in turn; yet none could drag from earth That spear deep-buried. Who acts: none. 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 163

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Chief following chief Drew near in turn; yet none could drag from earth That spear deep-buried.

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**Who acts:** none · **What happens:** follow, drag, bury · **To what, where:** earth, spear, Chief following chief

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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 (none), 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:pg78491:11:165
# text = Chief following chief Drew near in turn; yet none could drag from earth That spear deep-buried.
1	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
2	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	Drew	Drew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	near	near	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	12	nsubj	_	_
11	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	drag	drag	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	parataxis	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
17	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **drag** | could | none |  |  | earth |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from earth=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **bury** | participle |  | that spear *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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