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title: Our household foe ere long will clutch that hand-- Is yon a causeway… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Our household foe ere long will clutch that hand-- Is yon a causeway leading to the land?’ Who acts: household foe, causeway. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 4, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 19

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Our household foe ere long will clutch that hand-- Is yon a causeway leading to the land?’

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**Who acts:** household foe, causeway · **What happens:** clutch, be, lead · **To what, where:** hand, yon

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (household foe, causeway), 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:pg78491:4:19
# text = Our household foe ere long will clutch that hand-- Is yon a causeway leading to the land?’
1	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
4	ere	ere	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	clutch	clutch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	Is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	yon	yon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	causeway	causeway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
15	leading	lead	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	acl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clutch** | future | Our household foe *not said here* | that hand |  |  |  | long *property* | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | present | Our household foe | yon |  |  |  | a causeway *appos* | tree rules |
| 3 | **lead** | gerund | a causeway *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the land | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to land=Patient |

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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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