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title: The Bonachts stood in marvel; then dashed on, Their terror past; and… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The Bonachts stood in marvel; then dashed on, Their terror past; and Conor sent decree, ‘Except the woman, see ye spare not one! Who acts: Bonachts, Conor, ye. 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 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 63

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The Bonachts stood in marvel; then dashed on, Their terror past; and Conor sent decree, ‘Except the woman, see ye spare not one!

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**Who acts:** Bonachts, Conor, ye · **What happens:** stand, dash on, send, except, see, not spare · **To what, where:** marvel, terror past, decree, woman, ye, one

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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 (Bonachts, Conor, ye), 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:pg78491:7:63
# text = The Bonachts stood in marvel; then dashed on, Their terror past; and Conor sent decree, ‘Except the woman, see ye spare not one!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Bonachts	Bonacht	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	marvel	marvel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	dashed	dash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	on	on	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Conor	Conor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	decree	decree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	Except	except	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
26	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	25	obj	_	_
27	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
29	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the Bonachts |  |  | marvel |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in marvel=Location |
| 2 | **dash on** | past | the Bonachts *not said here* | Bonachts's terror past |  |  | then |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **send** | past | Conor | decree |  |  |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decree=Theme |
| 4 | **except** | infinitive | Conor *not said here* | the woman |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | infinitive | Conor *not said here* | ye |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **not** **spare** | infinitive | ye *not said here* | one |  |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent one=Asset |

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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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