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title: Bursting through his guard, the Donn Rushed t’ward the sound. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bursting through his guard, the Donn Rushed t’ward the sound. Who acts: Donn Rushed. 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 6

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Bursting through his guard, the Donn Rushed t’ward the sound.

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**Who acts:** Donn Rushed · **What happens:** burst, t'war · **To what, where:** guard, sound

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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 (Donn Rushed), 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:pg78491:16:6
# text = Bursting through his guard, the Donn Rushed t’ward the sound.
1	Bursting	burst	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	through	through	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Donn	Donn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	Rushed	Rushed	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	t’ward	t'war	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst** | gerund | the Donn Rushed *not said here* |  |  | Fionbannah's guard |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through guard=Location |
| 2 | **t'war** | past | the Donn Rushed | the sound |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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