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title: Lastly she marches against Eman, its metropolis, but slowly, being e… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lastly she marches against Eman, its metropolis, but slowly, being encumbered by her spoil. Who acts: Meave, spoil. 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 8

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Lastly she marches against Eman, its metropolis, but slowly, being encumbered by her spoil.

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**Who acts:** Meave, spoil · **What happens:** march, encumber, spoil · **To what, where:** metropolis, 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 (Meave, spoil), 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:pg78491:14:10
# text = Lastly she marches against Eman, its metropolis, but slowly, being encumbered by her spoil.
1	Lastly	lastly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	marches	march	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	against	against	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Eman	Eman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	metropolis	metropolis	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	encumbered	encumber	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	spoil	spoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **march** | present | Meave | circuit's metropolis |  | Eman |  | lastly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against eman=Trajectory |
| 2 | **encumber** | gerund · passive | Meave's spoil |  |  |  |  | slowly *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **spoil** |  | Meave |  |  |  |  |  | nom spoil «possession transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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