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title: That tumult scared The horses of the host of Meave that brake From w… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: That tumult scared The horses of the host of Meave that brake From war-car or the tethering rope, and spread Ruin around. Who acts: tumult, host. 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 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 182

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That tumult scared The horses of the host of Meave that brake From war-car or the tethering rope, and spread Ruin around.

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**Who acts:** tumult, host · **What happens:** scare, break, tether, spread around · **To what, where:** horses, Ruin

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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 (tumult, host), 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:pg78491:13:184
# text = That tumult scared The horses of the host of Meave that brake From war-car or the tethering rope, and spread Ruin around.
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	tumult	tumult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	scared	scare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	brake	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	From	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	tethering	tether	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	rope	rope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	Ruin	Ruin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	around	around	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scare** | past | that tumult | the horses of the host of Meave |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus horse=Experiencer |
| 2 | **break** | present | the host of Meave |  |  |  |  | from war car or the tethering rope | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from car=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **tether** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **spread around** | past | that tumult *not said here* | Ruin |  |  |  | around *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ruin=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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