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title: Then That mist storm-riven put forth once more its hand, And downwar… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then That mist storm-riven put forth once more its hand, And downward dragged its prey. Who acts: That, mist storm riven. 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 dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 154

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Then That mist storm-riven put forth once more its hand, And downward dragged its prey.

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**Who acts:** That, mist storm riven · **What happens:** riven, put, drag · **To what, where:** hand, prey

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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 (That, mist storm riven), 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:pg78491:12:156
# text = Then That mist storm-riven put forth once more its hand, And downward dragged its prey.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
2	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
3	mist	mist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
4	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	riven	riven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	10	advmod	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	12	advmod	_	_
11	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	downward	downward	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	dragged	drag	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **riven** |  | That |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **put** | participle | mist storm riven *not said here* | riven's hand |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **drag** | past | mist storm riven | riven's prey |  |  |  | downward *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=Theme |

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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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