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title: Still on He rushed, the reins forth shaking and the scourge, Clamour… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Still on He rushed, the reins forth shaking and the scourge, Clamouring and crying; ‘Haste, Cuchullain’s steeds! Who acts: first, reins. 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 pragmatic
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 165

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Still on He rushed, the reins forth shaking and the scourge, Clamouring and crying; ‘Haste, Cuchullain’s steeds!

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**Who acts:** first, reins · **What happens:** rush, shake, clamour, cry · **To what, where:** Haste

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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 (first, reins), 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:pg78491:12:167
# text = Still on He rushed, the reins forth shaking and the scourge, Clamouring and crying; ‘Haste, Cuchullain’s steeds!
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
3	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	reins	rein	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	shaking	shake	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	scourge	scourge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Clamouring	clamour	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	crying	cry	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Haste	haste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | past | first | Haste and Cuchullain's steeds |  |  | still |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **shake** | gerund | the reins |  |  |  |  | the scourge *conj*; forth *property* | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **clamour** | gerund | the reins *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | gerund | the reins *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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