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title: All day that battle raged While wood to wood thunder on thunder hurl… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: All day that battle raged While wood to wood thunder on thunder hurled, And all the bulls of Erin sent reply. Who acts: day, bulls. 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 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 8

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All day that battle raged While wood to wood thunder on thunder hurled, And all the bulls of Erin sent reply.

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**Who acts:** day, bulls · **What happens:** rage, hurl, send · **To what, where:** wood, thunder, reply

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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 (day, bulls), 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:pg78491:16:8
# text = All day that battle raged While wood to wood thunder on thunder hurled, And all the bulls of Erin sent reply.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	5	nsubj	_	_
4	battle	battle	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	raged	rage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl:relcl	_	_
6	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	hurled	hurl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	bulls	bull	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
22	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rage** | present | all day | wood |  | thunder |  | to wood thunder | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on thunder=Location |
| 2 | **hurl** | participle |  | thunder *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **send** | past | all bulls of Erin | reply |  |  | day |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=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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