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title: No hounds they need! alone they chase, each morn, The stag, and down… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: No hounds they need! alone they chase, each morn, The stag, and downward drag him head and horn! Who acts: hounds, treads, downward. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 3, 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 3, sentence 72

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No hounds they need! alone they chase, each morn, The stag, and downward drag him head and horn!

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**Who acts:** hounds, treads, downward · **What happens:** need, chase, drag · **To what, where:** morn

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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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hounds, treads, downward), 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:pg78491:3:72
# text = No hounds they need! alone they chase, each morn, The stag, and downward drag him head and horn!
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	hounds	hound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	need	need	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
6	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	chase	chase	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	morn	morn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	downward	downward	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	nsubj	_	_
18	drag	drag	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **need** | present | no hounds |  |  |  |  | treads *= tread* *nsubj* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 2 | **chase** | present | treads *= tread* | each morn and the stag |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morn=Theme |
| 3 | **drag** | present | downward | morn |  |  |  | head and horn *obj* | 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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