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title: Late that eve his kernes Forth from the battle tore him bleeding fas… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Late that eve his kernes Forth from the battle tore him bleeding fast From fifty wounds. Who acts: eve. 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 87

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Late that eve his kernes Forth from the battle tore him bleeding fast From fifty wounds.

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**Who acts:** eve · **What happens:** kerne, tore, bleed · **To what, where:** Fuad, battle, fifty wounds

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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 (eve), 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:pg78491:14:89
# text = Late that eve his kernes Forth from the battle tore him bleeding fast From fifty wounds.
1	Late	late	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	eve	eve	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	acl:relcl	_	_
5	kernes	kerne	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
10	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	bleeding	bleed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	12	advmod	_	_
14	From	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kerne** | present | that eve  Fuad |  |  |  |  | forth, late *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tore** | past |  | Fuad |  | the battle |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **bleed** | gerund |  |  |  | fifty wounds |  | fast *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from wound=Source |

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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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