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title: Around the loftiest bulwark and the last Once more for hours the bat… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Around the loftiest bulwark and the last Once more for hours the battle raged: it fell! Who acts: battle, hand. 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 clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 229

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Around the loftiest bulwark and the last Once more for hours the battle raged: it fell!

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**Who acts:** battle, hand · **What happens:** rage, fall · **To what, where:** loftiest bulwark

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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 (battle, hand), 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:pg78491:15:231
# text = Around the loftiest bulwark and the last Once more for hours the battle raged: it fell!
1	Around	around	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	loftiest	lofty	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	4	amod	_	_
4	bulwark	bulwark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
8	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	_
9	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	hours	hour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	raged	rage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rage** | past | the battle |  |  | the loftiest bulwark |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme around bulwark=Location |
| 2 | **fall** | past | hand |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «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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