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title: A sword uplifted, and Mac Favesh fell Prone on the shuddering flood. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: A sword uplifted, and Mac Favesh fell Prone on the shuddering flood. Who acts: sword, Mac. 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 92

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A sword uplifted, and Mac Favesh fell Prone on the shuddering flood.

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**Who acts:** sword, Mac · **What happens:** uplift, fall · **To what, where:** Prone, shuddering flood

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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 (sword, Mac), 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:pg78491:12:94
# text = A sword uplifted, and Mac Favesh fell Prone on the shuddering flood.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	uplifted	uplift	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	Mac	Mac	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	Favesh	Favesh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	Prone	Prone	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	shuddering	shuddering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **uplift** | participle | a sword |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **fall** | past | Mac | Prone |  | the shuddering flood |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient prone=Result |

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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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