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title: Other spectacle Met him, a chariot small with horses small, And, o’e… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Other spectacle Met him, a chariot small with horses small, And, o’er the axle bent, a small old man Urging them feebly on. Who acts: Other spectacle, small old man. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12, with its depe
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 122

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Other spectacle Met him, a chariot small with horses small, And, o’er the axle bent, a small old man Urging them feebly on.

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**Who acts:** Other spectacle, small old man · **What happens:** meet, bend, urge · **To what, where:** Southward, axle

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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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Other spectacle, small 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:pg78491:12:124
# text = Other spectacle Met him, a chariot small with horses small, And, o’er the axle bent, a small old man Urging them feebly on.
1	Other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	spectacle	spectacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	Met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	o’er	o'er	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	axle	axle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
18	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
24	Urging	urge	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	feebly	feebly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	on	on	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | Other spectacle | Southward |  |  |  | o'er the axle and a small old man; a chariot *obl* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **bend** | participle |  | the axle and a small old man *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **urge** | gerund | a small old man *not said here* | axle |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |

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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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