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title: King Daré’s sons had fled; But in the gate-way stood their old, grey… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: King Daré’s sons had fled; But in the gate-way stood their old, grey sire, Alone, and slew the first that entrance made: The rest dashed in upon him, and he died. Who acts: sons, first, rest. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Openi
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 17

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King Daré’s sons had fled; But in the gate-way stood their old, grey sire, Alone, and slew the first that entrance made: The rest dashed in upon him, and he died.

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**Who acts:** sons, first, rest · **What happens:** flee, stand, slay, make, dash, die · **To what, where:** old grey sire, gate way

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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 (sons, first, rest), 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:pg78491:14:19
# text = King Daré’s sons had fled; But in the gate-way stood their old, grey sire, Alone, and slew the first that entrance made: The rest dashed in upon him, and he died.
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Daré	Daré	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	1	case	_	_
4	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	fled	flee	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
8	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
14	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
16	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	grey	grey	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	sire	sire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	29	nsubj	_	_
27	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
28	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
31	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	dashed	dash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | past · perfect | King's sons |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | past | King's sons *not said here* | sons's old grey sire |  | the gate way |  | alone *property* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent sire=Theme in way=Destination |
| 3 | **slay** | past | King's sons *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | past | the first |  |  |  |  | that *nsubj*; entrance *nsubj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **dash** | participle | the rest |  |  |  |  | in entrance | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in he=Trajectory |
| 6 | **die** | past | rest |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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