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description: Not less his eye Watchful pursued the flying foe; his hand Brought down to earth the fleetest. Who acts: eye, 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 269

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Not less his eye Watchful pursued the flying foe; his hand Brought down to earth the fleetest.

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**Who acts:** eye, hand · **What happens:** pursue, fly, bring down · **To what, where:** flying foe

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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 (eye, 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:pg78491:15:271
# text = Not less his eye Watchful pursued the flying foe; his hand Brought down to earth the fleetest.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Watchful	Watchful	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
6	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	flying	fly	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	Brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	down	down	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	fleetest	fleet	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pursue** | past | mirth's eye | the flying foe |  |  |  | less *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foe=Theme |
| 2 | **fly** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bring down** | past | mirth's hand |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=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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