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title: Fate-compelled, their feet Drew near, then reached that stream which… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fate-compelled, their feet Drew near, then reached that stream which backward fled Leaving its channel dry. Who acts: compelled feet, stream. 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 prag
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 178

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Fate-compelled, their feet Drew near, then reached that stream which backward fled Leaving its channel dry.

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**Who acts:** compelled feet, stream · **What happens:** compel, reach, flee, leave, channel · **To what, where:** stream, channel

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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 (compelled feet, stream), 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:pg78491:13:180
# text = Fate-compelled, their feet Drew near, then reached that stream which backward fled Leaving its channel dry.
1	Fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	compelled	compel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
7	Drew	Drew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	near	near	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
15	backward	backward	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
17	Leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	xcomp	_	_
18	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	channel	channel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **compel** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | Fate *compound* | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **reach** | past | foes's compelled feet | that stream |  |  | then | Drew *nsubj*; near *property* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent stream=Theme |
| 3 | **flee** | past | that stream |  |  |  |  | backward *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | gerund | that stream *not said here* | stream's channel |  |  |  | dry *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent channel=Theme |
| 5 | **channel** |  | stream |  |  |  |  |  | nom channel «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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