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title: Hides of oxen seven Sustained the brazen bosses of his shield; And f… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hides of oxen seven Sustained the brazen bosses of his shield; And forth he stretched a hand that might have grasped A tiger’s throat and choked him. Who acts: Hides, Uladh. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12, with 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 83

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Hides of oxen seven Sustained the brazen bosses of his shield; And forth he stretched a hand that might have grasped A tiger’s throat and choked him.

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**Who acts:** Hides, Uladh · **What happens:** sustain, stretch, grasp, choke · **To what, where:** brazen bosses, hand, Uladh

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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 (Hides, Uladh), 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:pg78491:12:85
# text = Hides of oxen seven Sustained the brazen bosses of his shield; And forth he stretched a hand that might have grasped A tiger’s throat and choked him.
1	Hides	hide	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	oxen	ox	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nsubj	_	_
5	Sustained	sustain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|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	bosses	boss	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	stretched	stretch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obj	_	_
20	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	aux	_	_
22	grasped	grasp	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	acl:relcl	_	_
23	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	tiger	tiger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	throat	throat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	choked	choke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sustain** | past | Hides of oxen | the brazen bosses of Uladh's shield |  |  |  | seven *nsubj* | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent boss=Theme |
| 2 | **stretch** | past | Uladh | a hand |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient |
| 3 | **grasp** | might · perfect |  | a hand |  |  |  | a tiger's throat *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **choke** | past | Uladh *not said here* |  | Uladh |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=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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