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title: Onward next To Sencha’s castle:--On the roof he knelt, Self-styled t… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Onward next To Sencha’s castle:--On the roof he knelt, Self-styled the kingdom’s chief astrologer, Waiting the unrisen stars. Who acts: Sencha. 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 the pr
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 139

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Onward next To Sencha’s castle:--On the roof he knelt, Self-styled the kingdom’s chief astrologer, Waiting the unrisen stars.

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**Who acts:** Sencha · **What happens:** kneel, style, wait · **To what, where:** roof, chief astrologer, unrisen stars

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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 (Sencha), 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:pg78491:12:141
# text = Onward next To Sencha’s castle:--On the roof he knelt, Self-styled the kingdom’s chief astrologer, Waiting the unrisen stars.
1	Onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	next	next	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	To	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	Sencha	Sencha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	On	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	knelt	kneel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	Self	self	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	styled	style	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	astrologer	astrologer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	Waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	unrisen	unrisen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kneel** | past | Sencha | the roof *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roof=Topic |
| 2 | **style** | participle |  | the kingdom's chief astrologer |  |  |  | Self *compound* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent astrologer=Result |
| 3 | **wait** | gerund |  | the unrisen stars |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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