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title: The Foes confronted met: Shivered their spears from point to haft: t… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Foes confronted met: Shivered their spears from point to haft: their swords Flashed lightnings round them. Who acts: swords. 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 eve
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 177

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The Foes confronted met: Shivered their spears from point to haft: their swords Flashed lightnings round them.

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**Who acts:** swords · **What happens:** meet, shiver, flash · **To what, where:** Foes, spears, point, lightnings

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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 (swords), 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:pg78491:13:179
# text = The Foes confronted met: Shivered their spears from point to haft: their swords Flashed lightnings round them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Foes	foe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	confronted	confront	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
6	Shivered	shiver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
7	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	haft	haft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
16	Flashed	flash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
17	lightnings	lightning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
18	round	round	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past · passive |  | the Foes |  |  |  | foes's swords *obl* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **shiver** | participle |  | foes's spears |  | point to haft |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **flash** | participle | foes's swords *not said here* | lightnings |  |  |  | round foes *= foe* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent lightning=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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