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description: He rallied twice and thrice The fugitives; thrice turned them on the foe; Then stabbed them flying. Who acts: Conor, thrice. 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 c
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 161

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He rallied twice and thrice The fugitives; thrice turned them on the foe; Then stabbed them flying.

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**Who acts:** Conor, thrice · **What happens:** rally, turn, stab, fly · **To what, where:** fugitives, 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 (Conor, thrice), 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:pg78491:15:163
# text = He rallied twice and thrice The fugitives; thrice turned them on the foe; Then stabbed them flying.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rallied	rally	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	twice	twice	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	2	advmod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
5	thrice	thrice	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	fugitives	fugitive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	thrice	thrice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	stabbed	stab	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rally** | past | Conor |  |  |  |  | twice *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **turn** | past | thrice | fugitives *= fugitive* |  | the foe |  | thrice the fugitives | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **stab** | past | Conor *not said here* | fugitives *= fugitive* |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fly** | gerund | Conor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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