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title: The bravest men and best Caught by its current on were dragged like… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The bravest men and best Caught by its current on were dragged like trees The sport of winter flood. Who acts: winter flood. 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 272

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The bravest men and best Caught by its current on were dragged like trees The sport of winter flood.

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**Who acts:** winter flood · **What happens:** catch, drag, sport · **To what, where:** bravest men

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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 (winter flood), 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:pg78491:15:274
# text = The bravest men and best Caught by its current on were dragged like trees The sport of winter flood.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	bravest	brave	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	3	amod	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	6	amod	_	_
6	Caught	catch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	dragged	drag	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	trees	tree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	sport	sport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	winter	winter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by flight's current | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **drag** | past · passive |  | the bravest men |  |  |  | like trees; the sport of winter flood *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sport** |  | winter flood |  |  |  |  |  | nom sport «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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