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title: The invaders took no heed, But dashed through dark their galleys on… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The invaders took no heed, But dashed through dark their galleys on the strand; Then clapped their hands, and laughing leaped to land. Who acts: invaders. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 7, with its dependency tree 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 108

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The invaders took no heed, But dashed through dark their galleys on the strand; Then clapped their hands, and laughing leaped to land.

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**Who acts:** invaders · **What happens:** take, dash, clap, laugh, leap · **To what, where:** heed, dark galleys, hands

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (invaders), 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:pg78491:7:112
# text = The invaders took no heed, But dashed through dark their galleys on the strand; Then clapped their hands, and laughing leaped to land.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	invaders	invader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	heed	heed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	dashed	dash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	galleys	galley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	strand	strand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	clapped	clap	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	laughing	laugh	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	leaped	leap	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the invaders | no heed |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Theme |
| 2 | **dash** | past | the invaders *not said here* |  |  | invaders's dark galleys on the strand |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through galley=Trajectory |
| 3 | **clap** | past |  | invaders's hands |  |  | then |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme |
| 4 | **laugh** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **leap** | participle · passive |  |  |  |  |  | to land | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |

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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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