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title: Still, as the radiance bickers round the gem, So flashed the battle’… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Still, as the radiance bickers round the gem, So flashed the battle’s flame round her and them. Who acts: battle. 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 clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 85

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Still, as the radiance bickers round the gem, So flashed the battle’s flame round her and them.

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**Who acts:** battle · **What happens:** bicker, flash, flame · **To what, where:** flame

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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 (battle), 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:pg78491:4:86
# text = Still, as the radiance bickers round the gem, So flashed the battle’s flame round her and them.
1	Still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	radiance	radiance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
6	bickers	bicker	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	round	round	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	gem	gem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	So	so	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	flashed	flash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	’s	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	flame	flame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
17	round	round	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **bicker** | present |  |  |  |  | still | as the radiance; round the gem | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **flash** | past |  | the battle's flame |  |  |  | round Three; anon *conj* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flame=Theme |
| 3 | **flame** |  | the battle |  |  |  |  |  | nom flame «process intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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