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title: Warned by defeat Uladh had raised ere morn, Fronting her camp, three… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Warned by defeat Uladh had raised ere morn, Fronting her camp, three bulwarks: at the first And distant most, three hours the conflict raged. Who acts: defeat, conflict. 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 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 221

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Warned by defeat Uladh had raised ere morn, Fronting her camp, three bulwarks: at the first And distant most, three hours the conflict raged.

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**Who acts:** defeat, conflict · **What happens:** warn, raise, front, rage · **To what, where:** Uladh, camp · **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 (defeat, conflict), 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:pg78491:15:223
# text = Warned by defeat Uladh had raised ere morn, Fronting her camp, three bulwarks: at the first And distant most, three hours the conflict raged.
1	Warned	warn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	defeat	defeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	raised	raise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	ere	ere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	morn	morn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Fronting	front	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	1	ccomp	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	bulwarks	bulwark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	10	parataxis	_	_
20	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
25	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl:unmarked	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	raged	rage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **warn** *speech: warn* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by defeat | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **raise** | past · perfect · passive | defeat *not said here* | Uladh |  |  |  | ere morn *obj* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme morn=Destination |
| 3 | **front** | gerund |  | Uladh's camp and three bulwarks |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **rage** | past | the conflict |  |  |  | hour |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «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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