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title: In woods remote; and earthward bowed his head; And said; ‘that sound… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In woods remote; and earthward bowed his head; And said; ‘that sound is distant thirty leagues, And huge that host;’ then bade prepare his car, And southward sped, counsel to hold as wont With Faythleen nigh to Tara. Who acts: woods remote, sound, host. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and o
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 98

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In woods remote; and earthward bowed his head; And said; ‘that sound is distant thirty leagues, And huge that host;’ then bade prepare his car, And southward sped, counsel to hold as wont With Faythleen nigh to Tara.

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**Who acts:** woods remote, sound, host · **What happens:** bow, say, be, prepare, speed, hold · **To what, where:** head, car, counsel, woods remote · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (woods remote, sound, host), 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:pg78491:11:100
# text = In woods remote; and earthward bowed his head; And said; ‘that sound is distant thirty leagues, And huge that host;’ then bade prepare his car, And southward sped, counsel to hold as wont With Faythleen nigh to Tara.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	compound	_	_
3	remote	remote	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	earthward	earthward	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	bowed	bow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	ccomp	_	_
19	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	leagues	league	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	huge	huge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	parataxis	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
25	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	_
28	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
29	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	_
30	prepare	prepare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
35	southward	southward	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	sped	speed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	40	mark	_	_
40	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	advcl	_	_
41	as	as	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	wont	wont	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
43	With	with	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	Faythleen	Faythleen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	_
45	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
46	to	to	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	Tara	Tara	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bow** | past | woods remote *not said here* | dependent's head |  |  |  | earthward *property* | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Topic |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | woods remote *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | present | that sound |  |  |  |  | thirty leagues *obl*; distant *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **prepare** | infinitive | host and bade | dependent's car |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent car=Patient |
| 5 | **speed** | participle | woods remote *not said here* | counsel |  |  |  | southward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **hold** | to-infinitive | woods remote *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as wont; with Faythleen; nigh *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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