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title: Once more Returning from the vengeance they looked up; Then passed i… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Once more Returning from the vengeance they looked up; Then passed in silence by. Who acts: Ulidians. 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 281

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Once more Returning from the vengeance they looked up; Then passed in silence by.

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**Who acts:** Ulidians · **What happens:** return, look up, pass · **To what, where:** vengeance, silence

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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 (Ulidians), 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:pg78491:15:283
# text = Once more Returning from the vengeance they looked up; Then passed in silence by.
1	Once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	3	advmod	_	_
2	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
3	Returning	return	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	12	advmod	_	_
12	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | gerund |  |  |  | the vengeance |  | once *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from vengeance=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **look up** | past | Ulidians *= ulidian* | the vengeance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme vengeance=Attribute |
| 3 | **pass** | past |  |  |  | silence | then |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in silence=Location |

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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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