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title: And lo! like sheep that old and far-famed clan Lay on the war-field,… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And lo! like sheep that old and far-famed clan Lay on the war-field, slaughtered to a man. 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 65

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And lo! like sheep that old and far-famed clan Lay on the war-field, slaughtered to a man.

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**What happens:** fame, slaughter · **To what, where:** war field

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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: 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:pg78491:7:65
# text = And lo! like sheep that old and far-famed clan Lay on the war-field, slaughtered to a man.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	7	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	famed	fame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	amod	_	_
12	clan	clan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
13	Lay	Lay	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	slaughtered	slaughter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fame** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **slaughter** | participle |  | the war field *not said here* |  |  |  | to a man | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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