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title: Swift from his tent he strode:-- Without the hand of man there stood… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Swift from his tent he strode:-- Without the hand of man there stood his car And those immortal steeds pawing the air With wonted battle-cry! Who acts: man, hand, immortal steeds. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15,
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 235

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Swift from his tent he strode:-- Without the hand of man there stood his car And those immortal steeds pawing the air With wonted battle-cry!

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**Who acts:** man, hand, immortal steeds · **What happens:** stride, stand, paw, wont · **To what, where:** tent, car, air

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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 (man, hand, immortal steeds), 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:pg78491:15:237
# text = Swift from his tent he strode:-- Without the hand of man there stood his car And those immortal steeds pawing the air With wonted battle-cry!
1	Swift	swift	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	strode	stride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	Without	without	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
15	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	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	_	_
18	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
19	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	immortal	immortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
22	pawing	paw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	acl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	With	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	wonted	wont	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	amod	_	_
27	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stride** | past | man |  |  | man's tent |  | Swift *compound* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tent=Trajectory |
| 2 | **stand** | past | the hand of man | man's car |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer car=Stimulus |
| 3 | **paw** | gerund | that immortal steeds *not said here* | the air |  |  |  | with wonted battle cry | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent air=Patient with cry=Instrument |
| 4 | **wont** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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