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title: The hostile host approached, And, halting stood in wonder at that wr… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The hostile host approached, And, halting stood in wonder at that wreath; Yet none could spell the Ogham. Who acts: hostile host, none. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 117

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The hostile host approached, And, halting stood in wonder at that wreath; Yet none could spell the Ogham.

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**Who acts:** hostile host, none · **What happens:** approach, stand, spell · **To what, where:** wonder, Ogham

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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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hostile host, none), 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:pg78491:11:119
# text = The hostile host approached, And, halting stood in wonder at that wreath; Yet none could spell the Ogham.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hostile	hostile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	approached	approach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	halting	halt	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	stood	stand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	wreath	wreath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	19	nsubj	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	spell	spell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Ogham	Ogham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **approach** | participle | the hostile host |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **stand** | gerund · passive | the hostile host *not said here* |  |  | wonder |  | at that wreath | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: in wonder=Location |
| 3 | **spell** | could | none | the Ogham |  |  |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent ogham=Theme |

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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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