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title: Eve grew dim When lo! a chariot from the woods emerged In swift purs… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eve grew dim When lo! a chariot from the woods emerged In swift pursuit: an old man urged the steeds, A grey old man that chattered evermore With blinking eyes that ceased not from amaze. Who acts: Eve, chariot, old man, grey old man. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ire
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 99

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Eve grew dim When lo! a chariot from the woods emerged In swift pursuit: an old man urged the steeds, A grey old man that chattered evermore With blinking eyes that ceased not from amaze.

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**Who acts:** Eve, chariot, old man, grey old man, eyes · **What happens:** grow, emerge, urge, chatter, blink, not cease · **To what, where:** swift pursuit, steeds, eyes, amaze

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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 (Eve, chariot, old man, grey old man), 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:pg78491:11:101
# text = Eve grew dim When lo! a chariot from the woods emerged In swift pursuit: an old man urged the steeds, A grey old man that chattered evermore With blinking eyes that ceased not from amaze.
1	Eve	Eve	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	dim	dim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
4	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	12	advmod	_	_
5	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	12	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	_
12	emerged	emerge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
13	In	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	swift	swift	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	urged	urge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
25	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	chattered	chatter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	evermore	evermore	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	With	with	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	blinking	blink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	advcl	_	_
33	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
34	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	ceased	cease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	acl:relcl	_	_
36	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	amaze	amaze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow** | past | Eve |  |  |  |  | dim *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **emerge** | past | a chariot from the woods |  |  | swift pursuit |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pursuit=Location |
| 3 | **urge** | past | a old man |  | the steeds |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Recipient |
| 4 | **chatter** | past | a grey old man |  |  |  |  | evermore *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **blink** | gerund | a grey old man *not said here* | eyes |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **cease** | past | eyes | amaze |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality amaze=Eventuality |

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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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