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title: At the dawn By hundreds girt, the great ones of his clan, Down drave… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: At the dawn By hundreds girt, the great ones of his clan, Down drave he to the ford, and onward strode Trampling the last year’s branches strewn hard by That snapp’d beneath him. Who acts: Uladh, branches. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 82

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At the dawn By hundreds girt, the great ones of his clan, Down drave he to the ford, and onward strode Trampling the last year’s branches strewn hard by That snapp’d beneath him.

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**Who acts:** Uladh, branches · **What happens:** girt, stride, trample, strewn, have · **To what, where:** great ones, drave, branches

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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 (Uladh, branches), 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:pg78491:12:84
# text = At the dawn By hundreds girt, the great ones of his clan, Down drave he to the ford, and onward strode Trampling the last year’s branches strewn hard by That snapp’d beneath him.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	By	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
6	girt	girt	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	ones	one	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	clan	clan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	Down	down	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	drave	drave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	ford	ford	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	strode	stride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
25	Trampling	trample	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	’s	's	PART	POS	_	28	case	_	_
30	branches	branch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nsubj	_	_
31	strewn	strewn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
32	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
35	snapp	snapp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’d	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
37	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **girt** | present |  | the great ones of Uladh's clan |  |  | dawn | by hundreds; drave *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **stride** | past | Uladh | drave *not said here* |  |  |  | onward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme drave=Trajectory |
| 3 | **trample** | gerund | Uladh *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **strewn** | participle |  | the last year's branches *not said here* |  |  |  | by that snapp; hard *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **have** | past | the last year's branches |  |  |  |  | beneath Uladh | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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