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title: Onward they sped; But not unnoted by that demon brood That hate the… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Onward they sped; But not unnoted by that demon brood That hate the works of justice. Who acts: works, demon brood, justice. 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 c
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 237

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Onward they sped; But not unnoted by that demon brood That hate the works of justice.

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**Who acts:** works, demon brood, justice · **What happens:** speed, not unnot, hate, work · **To what, where:** works

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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 (works, demon brood, justice), 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:pg78491:15:239
# text = Onward they sped; But not unnoted by that demon brood That hate the works of justice.
1	Onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sped	speed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
7	unnoted	unnot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	demon	demon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	brood	brood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
12	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	nsubj	_	_
13	hate	hate	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	works	work	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	justice	justice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speed** | past | works *= work* |  |  |  |  | onward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **unnot** | participle | works *= work* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by that demon brood | tree rules |
| 3 | **hate** | present | that demon brood | the works of justice |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer work=Stimulus |
| 4 | **work** |  | justice |  |  |  |  |  | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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