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title: Chief on chief Went down before that sword that still, men sware, Wi… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Chief on chief Went down before that sword that still, men sware, With sweep that widened like a rainbow’s arch Ran from his hand and harvests reaped of death. Who acts: Chief, sword, sweep, harvests. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Ve
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 157

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Chief on chief Went down before that sword that still, men sware, With sweep that widened like a rainbow’s arch Ran from his hand and harvests reaped of death.

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**Who acts:** Chief, sword, sweep, harvests · **What happens:** go down, sware, widen, reap · **To what, where:** sword, hand

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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 (Chief, sword, sweep, harvests), 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:pg78491:15:159
# text = Chief on chief Went down before that sword that still, men sware, With sweep that widened like a rainbow’s arch Ran from his hand and harvests reaped of death.
1	Chief	Chief	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	Went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	down	down	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
12	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	compound	_	_
13	sware	sware	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	With	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	sweep	sweep	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
17	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
18	widened	widen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	rainbow	rainbow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’s	's	PART	POS	_	21	case	_	_
23	arch	arch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	Ran	Ran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	appos	_	_
25	from	from	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	18	obl	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	harvests	harvest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
30	reaped	reap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | past | Chief on chief |  |  | that sword |  | with sweep; down *property* | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before sword=Location |
| 2 | **sware** |  | that sword |  |  |  | still |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **widen** | past | sweep |  |  | Chief's hand |  | like a rainbow's arch | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **reap** | past | harvests |  |  |  |  | of death | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent of death=Initial\_Location |

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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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