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title: Hewing oaks on Fuad’s crest He marked her host, and rushed, a naked… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hewing oaks on Fuad’s crest He marked her host, and rushed, a naked man From waist to head, his axe within his hand, In fury on it. Who acts: Fuad. 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 th
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 86

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Hewing oaks on Fuad’s crest He marked her host, and rushed, a naked man From waist to head, his axe within his hand, In fury on it.

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**Who acts:** Fuad · **What happens:** hew, mark, rush · **To what, where:** oaks, crest, host, naked man, fury

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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 (Fuad), 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:pg78491:14:88
# text = Hewing oaks on Fuad’s crest He marked her host, and rushed, a naked man From waist to head, his axe within his hand, In fury on it.
1	Hewing	hew	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	oaks	oak	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Fuad	Fuad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	crest	crest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
7	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	naked	naked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	From	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	waist	waist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
25	within	within	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	In	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hew** | gerund |  | oaks |  | Fuad's crest |  |  | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oak=Patient |
| 2 | **mark** | past | Fuad | Ketherne's host |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent host=Destination |
| 3 | **rush** | past |  | a naked man from waist to head and Fuad's axe |  | fury on hand |  | within Fuad's hand | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in fury=Trajectory |

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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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