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title: The shield, The iron plate beneath, the stone within it, Like shallo… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The shield, The iron plate beneath, the stone within it, Like shallow ice-films ’neath a courser’s hoof Burst. 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 190

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The shield, The iron plate beneath, the stone within it, Like shallow ice-films ’neath a courser’s hoof Burst.

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**To what, where:** shield

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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:pg78491:13:192
# text = The shield, The iron plate beneath, the stone within it, Like shallow ice-films ’neath a courser’s hoof Burst.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	iron	iron	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	plate	plate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
7	beneath	beneath	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	within	within	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	shallow	shallow	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	ice	ice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
19	’	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	neath	neath	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	courser	courser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	hoof	hoof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod:desc	_	_
25	Burst	Burst	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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