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title: That chariot stays not, turns not: on it comes, Like torrent shootin… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: That chariot stays not, turns not: on it comes, Like torrent shooting from a tall cliff’s brow, Level long time; then downward borne!’ Who acts: chariot. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13, with its dependency tree 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 112

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That chariot stays not, turns not: on it comes, Like torrent shooting from a tall cliff’s brow, Level long time; then downward borne!’

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**Who acts:** chariot · **What happens:** not stay, not turn, come, bear · **To what, where:** chariot

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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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chariot), 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:pg78491:13:114
# text = That chariot stays not, turns not: on it comes, Like torrent shooting from a tall cliff’s brow, Level long time; then downward borne!’
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stays	stay	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	turns	turn	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	_
11	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	torrent	torrent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	shooting	shooting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	tall	tall	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	cliff	cliff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	Level	level	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
24	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
28	downward	downward	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
29	borne	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **stay** | present | that chariot |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **turn** | present | that chariot *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | present |  |  |  | chariot |  | like torrent shooting from a tall cliff's brow  long time and Level | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location |
| 4 | **bear** | participle | that chariot *not said here* |  |  |  | then | downward *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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