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title: Long that fight Watched by two hosts in speechless stupor held, Dire… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Long that fight Watched by two hosts in speechless stupor held, Direful and long! Who acts: two hosts, speechless stupor. 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 clau
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 169

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Long that fight Watched by two hosts in speechless stupor held, Direful and long!

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**Who acts:** two hosts, speechless stupor · **What happens:** watch, hold · **To what, where:** Long, Direful

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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 (two hosts, speechless stupor), 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:pg78491:15:171
# text = Long that fight Watched by two hosts in speechless stupor held, Direful and long!
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	fight	fight	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	Watched	watch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	speechless	speechless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	stupor	stupor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Direful	Direful	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **watch** | present · passive | two hosts in speechless stupor | Long |  |  |  | that *nsubj:pass* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | participle | speechless stupor *not said here* | Direful |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «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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