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title: In rushed they; but to meet A foe unwasted yet. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In rushed they; but to meet A foe unwasted yet. Who acts: hills. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15, 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 15, sentence 152

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In rushed they; but to meet A foe unwasted yet.

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**Who acts:** hills · **What happens:** rush, meet · **To what, where:** foe

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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 (hills), 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:pg78491:15:154
# text = In rushed they; but to meet A foe unwasted yet.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	meet	meet	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	unwasted	unwasted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
11	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rush** | participle | hills *= hill* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **meet** | to-infinitive |  | a foe |  |  | yet |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foe=Co-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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