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title: With spasm of arm Instant the Firbolg from its sable rim Cast him as… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: With spasm of arm Instant the Firbolg from its sable rim Cast him astonished. 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 174

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With spasm of arm Instant the Firbolg from its sable rim Cast him astonished.

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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: 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:pg78491:13:176
# text = With spasm of arm Instant the Firbolg from its sable rim Cast him astonished.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	spasm	spasm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Instant	Instant	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Firbolg	Firbolg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	sable	sable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	rim	rim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
12	Cast	Cast	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	flat	_	_
14	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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