--- title: ‘Northward of Eman lies a pleasaunce green: The Arch-Druid, Cathbad,… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Northward of Eman lies a pleasaunce green: The Arch-Druid, Cathbad, gazer on the stars, While there the youths contended, beckoned one And whispered, “Happy shall that stripling prove Knighted this day! Who acts: Northward, stripling. 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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 (Northward, stripling), 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:pg78491:11:186 # text = ‘Northward of Eman lies a pleasaunce green: The Arch-Druid, Cathbad, gazer on the stars, While there the youths contended, beckoned one And whispered, “Happy shall that stripling prove Knighted this day! 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Northward Northward PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Eman Eman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 5 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 pleasaunce pleasaunce NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 green green NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 : : PUNCT : _ 11 punct _ _ 10 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Arch-Druid Arch-Druid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Cathbad Cathbad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 gazer gazer NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 appos _ _ 16 on on ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 stars star NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 20 While while SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 21 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 24 expl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 youths youth NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 contended contend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 beckoned beckon VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 27 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 26 obj _ _ 28 And and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 whispered whisper VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 31 “ " PUNCT `` _ 36 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 Happy happy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 conj _ _ 33 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 36 aux _ _ 34 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 det _ _ 35 stripling stripling NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nsubj _ _ 36 prove prove VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 parataxis _ _ 37 Knighted knight VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 xcomp _ _ 38 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 39 det _ _ 39 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lie** | present | Northward of Eman | a pleasaunce green | | | | the Arch-Druid and Cathbad *obl* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location green=Theme | | 2 | **contend** | past | | | | there | | | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **beckon** | past | | one | | | | | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | | 4 | **whisper** *speech: express* | past | | | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **prove** *in a quote* | shall | that stripling | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **knight** *in a quote* | participle | that stripling *not said here* | | | | day | | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | 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 183](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/183/) - next →: [sentence 185](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/185/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/)