--- title: Old seers I saw that decked Time-honoured foreheads with a jester’s… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Old seers I saw that decked Time-honoured foreheads with a jester’s crown: I saw an ollamb trample under foot His sacred Oghams: next I saw him grave His own blear image on the tide-washed sands, Boasting, “The unnumbered ages here shall stoop Honouring true Wisdom’s image.” Who acts: Old seers, I, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/12/132/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The foray of Queen Meave, and other le…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/) / [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/12/) / 132 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 132 Old seers I saw that decked Time-honoured foreheads with a jester’s crown: I saw an ollamb trample under foot His sacred Oghams: next I saw him grave His own blear image on the tide-washed sands, Boasting, “The unnumbered ages here shall stoop Honouring true Wisdom’s image.” **Who acts:** Old seers, I, man, unnumbered ages, jester, Wisdom · **What happens:** see, deck, grave, wash, boast, stoop · **To what, where:** decked honoured foreheads, ollamb trample, foot, man, own blear image, washed sands · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Old seers, I, man, unnumbered ages), 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:pg78491:12:134 # text = Old seers I saw that decked Time-honoured foreheads with a jester’s crown: I saw an ollamb trample under foot His sacred Oghams: next I saw him grave His own blear image on the tide-washed sands, Boasting, “The unnumbered ages here shall stoop Honouring true Wisdom’s image.” 1 Old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 amod _ _ 2 seers seer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 that that SCONJ IN _ 10 mark _ _ 6 decked deck VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 amod _ _ 7 Time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 8 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 9 honoured honoured ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 foreheads forehead NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 obj _ _ 11 with with ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 12 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 13 jester jester NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ’s 's PART POS _ 13 case _ _ 15 crown crown NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 : : PUNCT : _ 18 punct _ _ 17 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 19 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 ollamb ollamb ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 trample trample NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 under under ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 foot foot NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 25 sacred sacred ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 Oghams ogham NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 : : PUNCT : _ 30 punct _ _ 28 next next ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 29 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj _ _ 30 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 31 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 grave grave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 30 xcomp _ _ 33 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 34 own own ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 blear blear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 image image NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 37 on on ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 39 tide tide NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 washed wash VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 42 amod _ _ 42 sands sand NOUN NNS Number=Plur 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 Boasting boast VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 46 “ " PUNCT `` _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 unnumbered unnumbered ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 ages age NOUN NNS Number=Plur 52 nsubj _ _ 50 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 49 advmod _ _ 51 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 52 stoop stoop VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 44 ccomp _ _ 53 Honouring honouring ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ _ 54 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ _ 55 Wisdom Wisdom PROPN NNP Number=Sing 57 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 56 ’s 's PART POS _ 55 case _ _ 57 image image NOUN NN Number=Sing 52 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 58 . . PUNCT . _ 52 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 59 ” " PUNCT '' _ 52 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **see** | past | Old seers | decked honoured foreheads | | | | with a jester's crown; I *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer forehead=Stimulus | | 2 | **deck** | participle | | | | | time | | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **see** | past | I | a ollamb trample | | foot | | man's sacred Oghams *obj* | tree rules | | 4 | **see** | past | I | man | | | | next *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **grave** | infinitive | man *not said here* | man's own blear image | | the washed sands | | | tree rules | | 6 | **wash** | participle | | | | | | tide *compound* | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **boast** *speech: other* | gerund | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **stoop** *in a quote* | shall | the unnumbered ages | Wisdom's Honouring true image | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location image=Theme | | 9 | **crown** | | a jester | | | | | | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent | | 10 | **image** | | man | | | | | | nom image «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | | 11 | **image** *in a quote* | | Wisdom | | | | | | nom image «cognition 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 131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/12/131/) - next →: [sentence 133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/12/133/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/12/)