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title: A stripling hopes this day With brandished spear to make a mountain… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: A stripling hopes this day With brandished spear to make a mountain flee! Who acts: stripling, mountain. 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 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 13, sentence 123

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A stripling hopes this day With brandished spear to make a mountain flee!

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**Who acts:** stripling, mountain · **What happens:** hope, brandish, make, flee · **To what, where:** mountain

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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 (stripling, mountain), 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:pg78491:13:125
# text = A stripling hopes this day With brandished spear to make a mountain flee!
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	stripling	stripling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	hopes	hope	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	With	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	brandished	brandish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
8	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	flee	flee	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	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 | **hope** | present | a stripling |  |  |  | day | with brandished spear | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **brandish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | a stripling *not said here* | a mountain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **flee** | infinitive | a mountain *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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