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title: Those dreamers still swam on till brand And shield down dropt from e… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Those dreamers still swam on till brand And shield down dropt from every helpless hand. Who acts: dreamers. 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 62

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Those dreamers still swam on till brand And shield down dropt from every helpless hand.

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**Who acts:** dreamers · **What happens:** swim, shield down · **To what, where:** brand, dropt, helpless hand

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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 (dreamers), 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:pg78491:7:62
# text = Those dreamers still swam on till brand And shield down dropt from every helpless hand.
1	Those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	dreamers	dreamer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	swam	swim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	till	till	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	brand	brand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	shield	shield	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
10	down	down	ADP	RP	_	9	compound:prt	_	_
11	dropt	dropt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	det	_	_
14	helpless	helpless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **swim** | past | that dreamers |  |  | brand | still |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on brand=Trajectory |
| 2 | **shield down** | infinitive | that dreamers *not said here* | dropt |  | every helpless hand |  |  | tree rules |

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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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