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title: The wittol bade The losel lead his wife to feast and dance: Young wa… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The wittol bade The losel lead his wife to feast and dance: Young warriors looked on maids with woman’s eyes. Who acts: wittol bade, Young warriors. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12, with its dependency tree and t
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 134

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The wittol bade The losel lead his wife to feast and dance: Young warriors looked on maids with woman’s eyes.

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**Who acts:** wittol bade, Young warriors · **What happens:** lea, feast, dance, look · **To what, where:** wife

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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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wittol bade, Young warriors), 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:pg78491:12:136
# text = The wittol bade The losel lead his wife to feast and dance: Young warriors looked on maids with woman’s eyes.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	wittol	wittol	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	bade	bade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	losel	losel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lead	lea	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	feast	feast	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	dance	dance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	Young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
17	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	maids	maid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	’s	's	PART	POS	_	20	case	_	_
22	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lea** | past | the wittol bade | losel's wife |  |  |  | the losel *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **feast** | to-infinitive | the wittol bade *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **dance** | infinitive | the wittol bade *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **look** | past | Young warriors |  |  |  |  | on maids; with woman's eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on maid=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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