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title: At last the vanquished westward creaked, a crane: A crane, the victo… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: At last the vanquished westward creaked, a crane: A crane, the victor chased him. Who acts: crane. 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 66

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At last the vanquished westward creaked, a crane: A crane, the victor chased him.

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**Who acts:** crane · **What happens:** vanquish, creak, chase · **To what, where:** eterne

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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 (crane), 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:pg78491:14:68
# text = At last the vanquished westward creaked, a crane: A crane, the victor chased him.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
4	vanquished	vanquish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
5	westward	westward	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	creaked	creak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	crane	crane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	crane	crane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	victor	victor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	chased	chase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **vanquish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **creak** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | westward *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **chase** | past | a crane and the victor | eterne |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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