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title: Hours went by: That day they sought not rest on rock or mound, Held… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hours went by: That day they sought not rest on rock or mound, Held no discourse. Who acts: Hours, warriors, rock. 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 171

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Hours went by: That day they sought not rest on rock or mound, Held no discourse.

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**Who acts:** Hours, warriors, rock · **What happens:** go by, not seek, rest, hold · **To what, where:** day, rock, discourse

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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 (Hours, warriors, rock), 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:pg78491:13:173
# text = Hours went by: That day they sought not rest on rock or mound, Held no discourse.
1	Hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	by	by	ADP	IN	_	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
5	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
10	rest	rest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	Held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
18	discourse	discourse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go by** | past | Hours |  |  |  | day |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **seek** | past | warriors *= warrior* | that day *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **rest** *not said to happen* | infinitive | warriors *= warrior* *not said here* |  |  | rock or mound |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rock=Location |
| 4 | **hold** | participle | rock or mound *not said here* | no discourse |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent discourse=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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