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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 140

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First ye heard Their axes only; last, the falling trees:-- What, Sirs, ye look like men ill-pleased!

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**Who acts:** ye, Sirs · **What happens:** hear, fall, look · **To what, where:** axes

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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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, Sirs), 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:pg78491:15:142
# text = First ye heard Their axes only; last, the falling trees:-- What, Sirs, ye look like men ill-pleased!
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
2	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	axes	ax	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
6	only	only	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	last	last	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	falling	fall	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	amod	_	_
12	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	Sirs	sir	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod	_	_
20	look	look	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | ye | forests's axes |  |  |  | the falling trees *obl*; first *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer ax=Stimulus |
| 2 | **fall** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **look** | present | Sirs  ye |  |  |  |  | like men; What *obl* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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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