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title: Then--sped from heaven--above the heads of all Ran Fear; and reached… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then--sped from heaven--above the heads of all Ran Fear; and reached King Conor’s council-hall. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 6, 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 6, sentence 100

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Then--sped from heaven--above the heads of all Ran Fear; and reached King Conor’s council-hall.

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**What happens:** speed, reach · **To what, where:** heaven, council hall

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg78491:6:101
# text = Then--sped from heaven--above the heads of all Ran Fear; and reached King Conor’s council-hall.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	sped	speed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	heaven	heaven	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	above	above	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
12	Ran	Ran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	Fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	Conor	Conor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **speed** | participle |  |  |  | heaven | then | above the heads of all Ran Fear | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from heaven=Trajectory |
| 2 | **reach** | past |  | King Conor's council hall |  |  |  |  | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hall=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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