--- title: Gracious as in the old days, that king rehearsed The Tale so long de… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Gracious as in the old days, that king rehearsed The Tale so long desired, though many an age, And that grey empire of departed Souls, Had quelled at last the strong ones of that strain, Record half jest, half earnest. Who acts: Gracious old days. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gracious old days), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78491:10:103 # text = Gracious as in the old days, that king rehearsed The Tale so long desired, though many an age, And that grey empire of departed Souls, Had quelled at last the strong ones of that strain, Record half jest, half earnest. 1 Gracious gracious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 2 as as ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 3 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 days day NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 8 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 9 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 rehearsed rehearse VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 Tale Tale PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 obj _ _ 13 so so ADV RB _ 14 advmod _ _ 14 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 15 advmod _ _ 15 desired desire VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 though though SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 age age NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 22 And and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 23 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 det _ _ 24 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 empire empire NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 departed depart VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 amod _ _ 28 Souls Soul PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 30 Had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 quelled quell VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 conj _ _ 32 at at ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 33 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obl _ _ 37 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 38 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 39 det _ _ 39 strain strain NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 Record record NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ _ 42 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 43 compound _ _ 43 jest jest NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 45 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 39 conj _ _ 46 earnest earn ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rehearse** | past | the Gracious old days | the Tale | | | | that king *nsubj* | vn rehearse-26.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme | | 2 | **desire** | participle | the Gracious old days *not said here* | a many age | | | | long *property* | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **depart** | participle | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **quell** | past · perfect · passive | | that grey empire of departed Souls | | | | at the last strong ones of that strain and Record half jest and half earnest | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/10/99/) - next →: [sentence 101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/10/101/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/10/)