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title: And gat him down, and drew a host, and drave Southward that seething… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And gat him down, and drew a host, and drave Southward that seething mass a mile and more, As when the wind before it drives the wave; And shouted, ‘traitors’ still; and slew six score. Who acts: you, wind. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 99

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And gat him down, and drew a host, and drave Southward that seething mass a mile and more, As when the wind before it drives the wave; And shouted, ‘traitors’ still; and slew six score.

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**Who acts:** you, wind · **What happens:** gat down, draw, drave, seethe, drive, shout · **To what, where:** whoe’er, host, Southward, mass, wave, traitors

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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: who acts (you, wind), 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:pg78491:6:100
# text = And gat him down, and drew a host, and drave Southward that seething mass a mile and more, As when the wind before it drives the wave; And shouted, ‘traitors’ still; and slew six score.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	gat	gat	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	down	down	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	drave	drave	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	Southward	Southward	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	seething	seethe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
16	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mile	mile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
23	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	28	mark	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
26	before	before	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nmod	_	_
28	drives	drive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	wave	wave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
32	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	traitors	traitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	36	punct	_	_
38	still	still	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
42	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	43	nummod	_	_
43	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gat down** | imperative | you *not said here* | whoe’er *= whoe'er* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **draw** | past | you *not said here* | a host |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=Theme |
| 3 | **drave** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Southward |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **seethe** | gerund | you *not said here* | mass |  |  |  | a mile *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **drive** | present | the wind before mile | the wave |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme wave=Trajectory |
| 6 | **shout** *speech: express* | past |  | traitors |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent traitor=Topic |
| 7 | **slay** | past |  | six score |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent score=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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