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title: How oft in agony that hour Caught they this man and that, and cried,… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: How oft in agony that hour Caught they this man and that, and cried, ‘Arise! Who acts: hour. 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 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 7, sentence 59

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How oft in agony that hour Caught they this man and that, and cried, ‘Arise!

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**Who acts:** hour · **What happens:** catch, cry, arise · **To what, where:** ’s

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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 (hour), 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:pg78491:7:59
# text = How oft in agony that hour Caught they this man and that, and cried, ‘Arise!
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	2	advmod	_	_
2	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	agony	agony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	Caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	Arise	arise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **catch** | past | hour | ’s *= '* |  |  |  | this man  that *obj* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary man=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **arise** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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