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title: Their strength ere long revived Southward in search of vengeance the… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Their strength ere long revived Southward in search of vengeance they will rush: Slay them yet weakling! Who acts: Touches. 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 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 14, sentence 46

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Their strength ere long revived Southward in search of vengeance they will rush: Slay them yet weakling!

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**Who acts:** Touches · **What happens:** revive, rush, slay, search · **To what, where:** strength, search, vengeance, Touches

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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 (Touches), 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:pg78491:14:48
# text = Their strength ere long revived Southward in search of vengeance they will rush: Slay them yet weakling!
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	revived	revive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	Southward	Southward	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	rush	rush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
15	Slay	slay	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	weakling	weakling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **revive** | participle · passive |  | Touches's strength |  | search of vengeance |  | Southward *obj*; ere, long *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **rush** | future | Touches *= touch* | vengeance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme vengeance=Trajectory |
| 3 | **slay** | infinitive |  | Touches *= touch* |  |  |  | weakling *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **search** |  |  | vengeance |  |  |  |  | nom search «act transitive»: of=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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