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title: Camp-followers first, then chiefs Innumerable were dragged along, or… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Camp-followers first, then chiefs Innumerable were dragged along, or lay ’Neath broken axle, dead. 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 183

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Camp-followers first, then chiefs Innumerable were dragged along, or lay ’Neath broken axle, dead.

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**What happens:** drag, lay, break · **To what, where:** Camp followers, Neath broken axle

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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:pg78491:13:185
# text = Camp-followers first, then chiefs Innumerable were dragged along, or lay ’Neath broken axle, dead.
1	Camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
7	chiefs	chiefs	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	_
8	Innumerable	Innumerable	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	dragged	drag	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	along	along	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
15	’	'	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Neath	Neath	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
17	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	axle	axle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drag** | past · passive |  | Camp followers |  |  | then | Innumerable *nsubj:pass*; along, first *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **lay** | infinitive |  | Neath broken axle |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axle=Result |
| 3 | **break** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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