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title: ‘An eye star-keen That boy upon them fixed, and, each on each, Smote… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘An eye star-keen That boy upon them fixed, and, each on each, Smote them. Who acts: eye star keen. 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 204

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‘An eye star-keen That boy upon them fixed, and, each on each, Smote them.

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**Who acts:** eye star keen · **What happens:** fix · **To what, where:** Smote

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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 (eye star keen), 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:pg78491:11:206
# text = ‘An eye star-keen That boy upon them fixed, and, each on each, Smote them.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
3	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	keen	keen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	boy	boy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	_
11	fixed	fix	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
19	Smote	Smote	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | past | a eye star keen | each Smote  vows |  |  |  | that boy upon vows *nsubj* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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