--- title: Within his heart Spirit illusive that, with purpose veiled, Oft trie… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Within his heart Spirit illusive that, with purpose veiled, Oft tries the loftiest most, this presage sang ‘Southward, not distant, thou shalt see them march At last, that Red Branch Order, in their van Thy Conal Carnach!’ Who acts: purpose, presage, thou, rocks. 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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 (purpose, presage, thou, rocks), 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:pg78491:12:123 # text = Within his heart Spirit illusive that, with purpose veiled, Oft tries the loftiest most, this presage sang ‘Southward, not distant, thou shalt see them march At last, that Red Branch Order, in their van Thy Conal Carnach!’ 1 Within within ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 4 Spirit Spirit PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 illusive illusive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 purpose purpose NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 veiled veil VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 Oft oft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 conj _ _ 13 tries try VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 advcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 loftiest lofty ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 obj _ _ 16 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 presage presage NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 nsubj _ _ 20 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 advcl _ _ 21 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Southward Southward PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 distant distant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 27 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 29 nsubj _ _ 28 shalt shall AUX MD Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin 29 aux _ _ 29 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obj _ _ 31 march march VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 29 xcomp _ _ 32 At at ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 38 mark _ _ 36 Red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 Branch Branch PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 compound _ _ 38 Order Order PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 van van NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 parataxis _ _ 43 Thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 44 nmod:poss _ _ 44 Conal Conal PROPN NNP Number=Sing 42 appos _ _ 45 Carnach Carnach PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **veil** | participle | | purpose *not said here* | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **try** | present | purpose | the loftiest | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lofty=Eventuality | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | this presage | Southward | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location southward=Theme | | 4 | **see** | shall | thou | rocks *= rock* | | | | Branch Order *obl*; rocks's van *parataxis* | tree rules | | 5 | **march** | infinitive | rocks *= rock* *not said here* | | | last | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Trajectory | 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 120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/12/120/) - next →: [sentence 122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/12/122/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/12/)