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title: Scornful of their foe And burning for revenge, the North had spurned… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Scornful of their foe And burning for revenge, the North had spurned Science of war, their boast, and left, death-strewn, Full half their host. Who acts: foes. 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
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 181

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Scornful of their foe And burning for revenge, the North had spurned Science of war, their boast, and left, death-strewn, Full half their host.

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**Who acts:** foes · **What happens:** burn, spurn, leave, boast · **To what, where:** North, host

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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 (foes), 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:pg78491:15:183
# text = Scornful of their foe And burning for revenge, the North had spurned Science of war, their boast, and left, death-strewn, Full half their host.
1	Scornful	scornful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	advcl	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
5	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	burning	burn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	North	North	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	spurned	spurn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	amod	_	_
14	Science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	boast	boast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	strewn	strewn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	Full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
29	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	31	det:predet	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for revenge | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **spurn** | past · perfect · passive |  | North |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **leave** | participle |  | foes's host |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **boast** |  | foes *= foe* |  |  |  |  |  | nom boast «communication intransitive»: poss=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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