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title: And O, to hear in woods the loud hounds baying, Or plunge of floods… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And O, to hear in woods the loud hounds baying, Or plunge of floods adown some hoarse ravine! Who acts: loud hounds. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 5, 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 5, sentence 4

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And O, to hear in woods the loud hounds baying, Or plunge of floods adown some hoarse ravine!

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**Who acts:** loud hounds · **What happens:** hear, bay, plunge · **To what, where:** loud hounds, woods, plunge adown, floods

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (loud hounds), 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:pg78491:5:4
# text = And O, to hear in woods the loud hounds baying, Or plunge of floods adown some hoarse ravine!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	hear	hear	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hounds	hound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
11	baying	bay	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	plunge	plunge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	floods	flood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	adown	adown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	det	_	_
19	hoarse	hoarse	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	ravine	ravine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | to-infinitive |  | the loud hounds |  | woods |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer hound=Stimulus |
| 2 | **bay** | gerund | the loud hounds *not said here* | plunge adown |  |  |  | some hoarse ravine *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **plunge** |  |  | floods |  |  |  |  | nom plunge «act transitive»: of=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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