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title: A hundred swords Flashed from their sheaths, and from a hundred mout… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: A hundred swords Flashed from their sheaths, and from a hundred mouths One sentence issued--‘Death!’ 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 45

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A hundred swords Flashed from their sheaths, and from a hundred mouths One sentence issued--‘Death!’

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**What happens:** flash, issue · **To what, where:** hundred swords, sheaths, hundred mouths

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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: 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:pg78491:15:47
# text = A hundred swords Flashed from their sheaths, and from a hundred mouths One sentence issued--‘Death!’
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	Flashed	flash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sheaths	sheath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
14	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
15	sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	issued	issue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flash** | participle |  | hundred swords and hundred mouths and One sentence and Death *not said here* |  | swords's sheaths |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **issue** | participle |  | hundred mouths and One sentence *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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