--- title: To Olchar’s Dûn I journeyed: wrapp’d in rags the strong man lay, Thi… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: To Olchar’s Dûn I journeyed: wrapp’d in rags the strong man lay, Thin from long fast; with eyelids well nigh closed: Not less beneath them lay a gleaming streak: “Awake me not,” he said: “a dormouse I! Who acts: I, wrapp, less, gleaming streak. 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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 (I, wrapp, less, gleaming streak), 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:pg78491:12:142 # text = To Olchar’s Dûn I journeyed: wrapp’d in rags the strong man lay, Thin from long fast; with eyelids well nigh closed: Not less beneath them lay a gleaming streak: “Awake me not,” he said: “a dormouse I! 1 To to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 Olchar Olchar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ’s 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 Dûn Dûn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 journeyed journey VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 44 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 8 wrapp wrapp NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 ’d ' VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 8 acl _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 rags rag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 strong strong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 lay lay VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 17 Thin thin VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 conj _ _ 18 from from ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 20 advmod _ _ 20 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 eyelids eyelid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 obl _ _ 24 well well ADV RB Degree=Pos 26 advmod _ _ 25 nigh nigh ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ _ 26 closed close VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 28 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 29 advmod _ _ 29 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 nsubj _ _ 30 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 obl _ _ 32 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 34 gleaming gleam VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 35 amod _ _ 35 streak streak NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 36 : : PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 37 “ " PUNCT `` _ 38 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 Awake awake VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 acl:relcl _ _ 39 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 38 obj _ _ 40 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 38 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ” " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 44 nsubj _ _ 44 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 45 : : PUNCT : _ 48 punct _ _ 46 “ " PUNCT `` _ 48 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 dormouse dormouse NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 ccomp _ _ 49 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 48 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ! ! PUNCT . _ 44 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **journey** | past | I | | Olchar's Dûn | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **'** | participle | | wrapp *not said here* | | rags | | | tree rules | | 3 | **lay** | infinitive | wrapp | | | | | the strong man *nsubj* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **thin** | infinitive | wrapp *not said here* | | | | | fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **close** | participle | I *not said here* | | | | | with eyelids; nigh, well *property* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with eyelid=Theme | | 6 | **lay** | present | less beneath eyelids | a gleaming streak | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent streak=Result | | 7 | **gleam** | gerund | | | | | | | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **not** **awake** *in a quote* | infinitive | a gleaming streak *not said here* | man | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme | | 9 | **say** *speech: express* | past | man | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **dormouse** *in a quote* | | man | | | | | | tree rules | 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 139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/12/139/) - next →: [sentence 141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/12/141/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/12/)