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title: Such hindrances, and every day had such, Likewise huge herds and cum… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Such hindrances, and every day had such, Likewise huge herds and cumber of her spoil Slackened the march of Meave. Who acts: Such hindrances, spoil, foe. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 14, with its dependency tree 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 100

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Such hindrances, and every day had such, Likewise huge herds and cumber of her spoil Slackened the march of Meave.

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**Who acts:** Such hindrances, spoil, foe · **What happens:** have, slacken, spoil · **To what, where:** such huge herds, march

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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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Such hindrances, spoil, foe), 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:pg78491:14:102
# text = Such hindrances, and every day had such, Likewise huge herds and cumber of her spoil Slackened the march of Meave.
1	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	hindrances	hindrance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	Likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	herds	herd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	cumber	cumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	spoil	spoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	Slackened	slacken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	march	march	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Such hindrances | such huge herds and cumber |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Patient |
| 2 | **slacken** | past | foe's spoil | the march of Meave |  |  |  |  | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent march=Patient |
| 3 | **spoil** |  | foe |  |  |  |  |  | nom spoil «possession 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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