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title: With lifted spear She smote the brazen centre of her shield Three ti… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: With lifted spear She smote the brazen centre of her shield Three times; and thunder, triple-bolted, rolled Three times from sea to sea. Who acts: Was. 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 an
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 161

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With lifted spear She smote the brazen centre of her shield Three times; and thunder, triple-bolted, rolled Three times from sea to sea.

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**Who acts:** Was · **What happens:** lift, smite, bolt, roll · **To what, where:** brazen centre, sea

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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 (Was), 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:pg78491:12:163
# text = With lifted spear She smote the brazen centre of her shield Three times; and thunder, triple-bolted, rolled Three times from sea to sea.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	lifted	lift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	brazen	brazen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	centre	centre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	triple	triple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	bolted	bolt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
23	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	24	nummod	_	_
24	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lift** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **smite** | past | Was | the brazen centre of Was's shield |  |  | time | with lifted spear; thunder *obl* | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent centre=Patient with spear=Instrument |
| 3 | **bolt** | participle | Was *not said here* |  |  |  |  | triple *compound* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **roll** | past |  |  |  | sea | time | to sea | vn slide-11.2-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from sea=Initial\_Location to sea=Destination |

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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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