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title: His mood Changed into mirthful: fleeter than the wind Six stags went… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: His mood Changed into mirthful: fleeter than the wind Six stags went by him, stateliest of the herd; Afoot he chased them, caught them, bound them fast Behind the chariot rail. Who acts: Six stags, Afoot. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey D
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 220

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His mood Changed into mirthful: fleeter than the wind Six stags went by him, stateliest of the herd; Afoot he chased them, caught them, bound them fast Behind the chariot rail.

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**Who acts:** Six stags, Afoot · **What happens:** change, go, chase, catch, bound · **To what, where:** mood, mirthful, stateliest, stags, chariot rail

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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 (Six stags, Afoot), 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:pg78491:11:222
# text = His mood Changed into mirthful: fleeter than the wind Six stags went by him, stateliest of the herd; Afoot he chased them, caught them, bound them fast Behind the chariot rail.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	Changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	mirthful	mirthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	fleeter	fleet	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
8	than	than	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	Six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	stags	stag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	stateliest	stately	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	herd	herd	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	Afoot	Afoot	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	chased	chase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	caught	catch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	bound	bound	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	30	advmod	_	_
33	Behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	rail	rail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **change** | participle |  | car's mood *not said here* |  |  |  | into mirthful *result* | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into mirthful=Result |
| 2 | **go** | past | Six stags | stateliest of the herd |  |  |  | by car | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by he=Location |
| 3 | **chase** | past | Afoot | stags *= stag* |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **catch** | past | Afoot *not said here* | stags *= stag* |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 5 | **bound** | infinitive |  | stags *= stag* |  | the chariot rail |  | fast *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location they=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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