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title: On that night Of overthrow he reached the royal camp: Far off they k… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: On that night Of overthrow he reached the royal camp: Far off they kenned his car, and raised that shout Heard never save for him. Who acts: Devastated, tidings, that, Heard. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15, with
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 209

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On that night Of overthrow he reached the royal camp: Far off they kenned his car, and raised that shout Heard never save for him.

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**Who acts:** Devastated, tidings, that, Heard · **What happens:** reach, ken, raise, shout, not save · **To what, where:** royal camp, car · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Devastated, tidings, that, Heard), 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:pg78491:15:211
# text = On that night Of overthrow he reached the royal camp: Far off they kenned his car, and raised that shout Heard never save for him.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	overthrow	overthrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	Far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
13	off	off	ADP	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	kenned	ken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	nsubj	_	_
22	shout	shout	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	ccomp	_	_
23	Heard	Heard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
25	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	ccomp	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reach** | past | Devastated | the royal camp |  |  | night |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent camp=Theme |
| 2 | **ken** | past | tidings *= tiding* | Devastated's car |  |  |  | far *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **raise** | past | tidings *= tiding* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | present | that |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **not** **save** | infinitive | Heard |  |  |  |  | for Devastated | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for he=Beneficiary |

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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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