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title: As it flew The swift one caught it; poised it; hurled it home: It pi… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: As it flew The swift one caught it; poised it; hurled it home: It pierced that youth from back to breast; he fell Dead on the chariot’s floor. Who acts: javelin, swift one, youth. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11,
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 177

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As it flew The swift one caught it; poised it; hurled it home: It pierced that youth from back to breast; he fell Dead on the chariot’s floor.

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**Who acts:** javelin, swift one, youth · **What happens:** fly, catch, poise, hurl, pierce, fall · **To what, where:** javelin, youth, back, floor

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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 (javelin, swift one, youth), 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:pg78491:11:179
# text = As it flew The swift one caught it; poised it; hurled it home: It pierced that youth from back to breast; he fell Dead on the chariot’s floor.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	swift	swift	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	poised	poise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
13	hurled	hurl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	home	home	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	pierced	pierce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
20	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	Dead	dead	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
29	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’s	's	PART	POS	_	31	case	_	_
33	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fly** | past | javelin |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **catch** | past | the swift one | javelin |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **poise** | past | javelin *not said here* | javelin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hurl** | past | javelin *not said here* | javelin |  |  |  | home *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 5 | **pierce** | past | javelin | youth |  | back |  | to breast | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Patient |
| 6 | **fall** | past | youth |  |  | the chariot's floor |  | dead *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on floor=Location |

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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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