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title: Upon the bank that day Stood up a Portent seen by none save him, A S… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon the bank that day Stood up a Portent seen by none save him, A Shape not human. Who acts: day, Portent. 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 87

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Upon the bank that day Stood up a Portent seen by none save him, A Shape not human.

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**Who acts:** day, Portent · **What happens:** stand up, see, save · **To what, where:** bank, Portent, strength

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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 (day, Portent), 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:pg78491:12:89
# text = Upon the bank that day Stood up a Portent seen by none save him, A Shape not human.
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bank	bank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	Stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Portent	portent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
10	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	10	obl	_	_
13	save	save	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
14	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	Shape	Shape	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	parataxis	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand up** | past | that day |  |  | the bank |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon bank=Location |
| 2 | **see** | participle |  | a Portent *not said here* |  |  |  | by none | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **save** | present | a Portent | strength |  |  |  | a Shape *parataxis* | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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