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title: Countless wrongs And shame at all that long inglorious trance, Rouse… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 148

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Countless wrongs And shame at all that long inglorious trance, Roused wrath to madness; from them far they flung Encumbering arms, and, bare from scalp to waist, Worked on with brandished battle-axe.

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**Who acts:** Countless wrongs · **What happens:** rouse, fling, encumber, bear, waist, work on · **To what, where:** arms, scalp

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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 (Countless wrongs), 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:pg78491:15:150
# text = Countless wrongs And shame at all that long inglorious trance, Roused wrath to madness; from them far they flung Encumbering arms, and, bare from scalp to waist, Worked on with brandished battle-axe.
1	Countless	countless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	wrongs	wrong	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
3	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	advmod	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	nsubj	_	_
8	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	inglorious	inglorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	trance	trance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Roused	rouse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	wrath	wrath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	madness	madness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
19	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	21	advmod	_	_
20	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	flung	fling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	Encumbering	encumber	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	xcomp	_	_
23	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	bare	bear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	scalp	scalp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	waist	waist	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Worked	work	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	conj	_	_
34	on	on	ADP	RP	_	33	compound:prt	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
36	brandished	brandish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	amod	_	_
37	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	37	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	axe	axe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rouse** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fling** | past | Countless wrongs and shame at long inglorious trance  that |  |  |  |  | from hills *= hill*; far *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **encumber** | gerund | Countless wrongs and shame at long inglorious trance  that *not said here* | arms |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme arm=Recipient |
| 4 | **bear** | infinitive |  |  |  | scalp |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 5 | **waist** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **work on** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with brandished battle axe | vn cooperate-73.1-3 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with axe=Co-Agent |
| 7 | **brandish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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