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title: Five Saints obeyed And o’er that venerable spot three days Fasting m… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Five Saints obeyed And o’er that venerable spot three days Fasting made prayer while knelt the bards around. Who acts: Saints, that, three days, while. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree an
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 97

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Five Saints obeyed And o’er that venerable spot three days Fasting made prayer while knelt the bards around.

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**Who acts:** Saints, that, three days, while · **What happens:** obey, spot, fast, make, kneel around · **To what, where:** Five, made prayer, bards

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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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saints, that, three days, while), 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:pg78491:10:100
# text = Five Saints obeyed And o’er that venerable spot three days Fasting made prayer while knelt the bards around.
1	Five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obl	_	_
2	Saints	Saint	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	obeyed	obey	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	o’er	o'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	venerable	venerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	spot	spot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	ccomp	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
11	Fasting	fast	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	while	while	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj	_	_
15	knelt	kneel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	bards	bard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	around	around	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **obey** | past | Saints | Five |  |  | day | o’er *obj* | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent o'er=Theme |
| 2 | **spot** |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fast** | gerund | three days *not said here* | made prayer |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 5 | **kneel around** | past | while | the bards |  |  |  | around *property* | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bard=Topic |

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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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