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title: Like a flood Wind devious through the land and strip it bare: Till t… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Like a flood Wind devious through the land and strip it bare: Till then let Eman be.’ Who acts: Eman. 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 clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 57

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Like a flood Wind devious through the land and strip it bare: Till then let Eman be.’

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**Who acts:** Eman · **What happens:** wind, strip, let, be · **To what, where:** land, Eman

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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 (Eman), 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:pg78491:14:59
# text = Like a flood Wind devious through the land and strip it bare: Till then let Eman be.’
1	Like	like	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	Wind	wind	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	devious	devious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	xcomp	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	strip	strip	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	Till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
16	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
17	Eman	Eman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wind** | present |  |  |  | the land |  | like a flood; devious *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through land=Trajectory |
| 2 | **strip** | infinitive |  | land |  |  |  | bare *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | Eman |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** | infinitive | Eman *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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