--- title: Eiderkool Marched, ever shrilling songs and shaking spears: And, mig… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Eiderkool Marched, ever shrilling songs and shaking spears: And, mightier far, with never slumbering hearts And eyes that stared through long desire of home Uladh’s three thousand exiles, driven far forth When Conor Conchobar, trampling his pledge, Slaughtered the sons of Usnach. 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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 (Eiderkool, slumbering hearts, Conor), 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:pg78491:11:62 # text = Eiderkool Marched, ever shrilling songs and shaking spears: And, mightier far, with never slumbering hearts And eyes that stared through long desire of home Uladh’s three thousand exiles, driven far forth When Conor Conchobar, trampling his pledge, Slaughtered the sons of Usnach. 1 Eiderkool Eiderkool PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 Marched march VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 4 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 5 advmod _ _ 5 shrilling shrill VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 6 songs song NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 shaking shake VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 5 conj _ _ 9 spears spear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 11 And and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 mightier mighty ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 2 conj _ _ 14 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 2 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 18 advmod _ _ 18 slumbering slumber VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 amod _ _ 19 hearts heart NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 20 And and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 conj _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 nsubj _ _ 23 stared stare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 acl:relcl _ _ 24 through through ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 desire desire NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 home home NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 29 Uladh Uladh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 33 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ’s 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 32 compound _ _ 32 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 33 nummod _ _ 33 exiles exile NOUN NNS Number=Plur 28 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 35 driven drive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 33 acl _ _ 36 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 37 advmod _ _ 37 forth forth ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 38 When when ADV WRB PronType=Int 46 advmod _ _ 39 Conor Conor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 40 Conchobar Conchobar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 42 trampling trample VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 39 conj _ _ 43 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 pledge pledge NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 46 Slaughtered slaughter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 advcl _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 46 obj _ _ 49 of of ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 50 Usnach Usnach PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 51 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **march** | past | Eiderkool | | | | | with slumbering hearts and eyes; far *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **shrill** | gerund | Eiderkool *not said here* | songs | | | ever | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme | | 3 | **shake** | gerund | Eiderkool *not said here* | spears | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent spear=Patient | | 4 | **not** **slumber** | gerund | | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **stare** | past | slumbering hearts and eyes | | | | | through long desire of home and Uladh's thousand exiles | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through desire=Theme | | 6 | **drive** | participle | | Uladh's thousand exiles *not said here* | | | | forth *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **trample** | gerund | Conor *not said here* | Eiderkool's pledge | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **slaughter** | past | Conor | the sons of Usnach | | | | | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | | 9 | **desire** | | | home and Uladh's thousand exiles | | | | | nom desire «feeling transitive»: of=patient | | 10 | **pledge** | | Eiderkool | | | | | | nom pledge «possession transitive»: poss=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 59](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/59/) - next →: [sentence 61](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/61/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/)