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title: Those twenty years run out, the vanquished crane Dropp’d on a stream… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Those twenty years run out, the vanquished crane Dropp’d on a stream and straight to salmon changed; Instant his foe, to salmon turned not less, From stream to sea pursued him. Who acts: salmon, stream. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 68

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Those twenty years run out, the vanquished crane Dropp’d on a stream and straight to salmon changed; Instant his foe, to salmon turned not less, From stream to sea pursued him.

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**Who acts:** salmon, stream · **What happens:** run out, vanquish, change, not turn, pursue · **To what, where:** twenty years, Dropp ’d, salmon

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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 (salmon, stream), 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:pg78491:14:70
# text = Those twenty years run out, the vanquished crane Dropp’d on a stream and straight to salmon changed; Instant his foe, to salmon turned not less, From stream to sea pursued him.
1	Those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
4	run	run	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	vanquished	vanquish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	crane	crane	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
10	Dropp	Dropp	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’d	'd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	straight	straight	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
19	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
21	Instant	instant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	parataxis	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
26	salmon	salmon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
29	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	27	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	From	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nsubj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
35	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run out** | participle |  | that twenty years *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **vanquish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **change** | participle |  | Dropp ’d  that twenty years  the vanquished crane on a stream and salmon *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **turn** | past | salmon |  |  |  |  | less *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **pursue** | past | stream to sea | salmon |  |  |  |  | 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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