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title: The blood-red nostril smells the fight far off! — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The blood-red nostril smells the fight far off! Who acts: red nostril. 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 clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 170

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The blood-red nostril smells the fight far off!

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**Who acts:** red nostril · **What happens:** smell · **To what, where:** fight

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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 (red nostril), 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:pg78491:12:172
# text = The blood-red nostril smells the fight far off!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	nostril	nostril	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	smells	smell	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	_
10	off	off	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smell** | present | the red nostril | the fight |  |  |  | off *property* | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fight=Stimulus |

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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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