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title: Bending low, Low as that stream, the war-game’s crowning feat, He la… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bending low, Low as that stream, the war-game’s crowning feat, He launched it on Ferdīa’s breast. Who acts: Leagh, game ’s. 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 cl
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 189

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Bending low, Low as that stream, the war-game’s crowning feat, He launched it on Ferdīa’s breast.

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**Who acts:** Leagh, game ’s · **What happens:** bend, crown, launch · **To what, where:** feat, breast

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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 (Leagh, game ’s), 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:pg78491:13:191
# text = Bending low, Low as that stream, the war-game’s crowning feat, He launched it on Ferdīa’s breast.
1	Bending	bend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
2	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	game	game	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	'	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
14	crowning	crown	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
15	feat	feat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
17	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	launched	launch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	Ferdīa	Ferdīa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bend** | gerund | Leagh *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as that stream  the game ’s; low *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **crown** | gerund | the game ’s *not said here* | feat |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feat=Theme |
| 3 | **launch** | past | Leagh | feat |  | Ferdīa's breast |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on breast=Destination |

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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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