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title: • p. 155: Changed “o er” to “o’er” in phrase “o’er the axle bent.” — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: • p. 155: Changed “o er” to “o’er” in phrase “o’er the axle bent.” Who acts: • p., axle. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 16, 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 16, sentence 162

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• p. 155: Changed “o er” to “o’er” in phrase “o’er the axle bent.”

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**Who acts:** • p., axle · **What happens:** change, bend · **To what, where:** o’er

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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 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (• p., axle), 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:pg78491:16:165
# text = • p. 155: Changed “o er” to “o’er” in phrase “o’er the axle bent.”
1	•	•	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	p.	P.	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	155	155	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	5	punct	_	_
5	Changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	o	o	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
8	er	e	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	o’er	o'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	o’er	o'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	axle	axle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	bent	bend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | participle | • p. |  |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bend** *in a quote* | past | the axle | o’er *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent o'er=Material |

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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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