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title: I sought the Druids’ College: in a hall Reed-strewn to smother sound… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: I sought the Druids’ College: in a hall Reed-strewn to smother sound they held debate On Firbolg and Dedannan contracts pledged Ere landed first the Gael. Who acts: I, Druids, debate contracts, Ere. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 145

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I sought the Druids’ College: in a hall Reed-strewn to smother sound they held debate On Firbolg and Dedannan contracts pledged Ere landed first the Gael.

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**Who acts:** I, Druids, debate contracts, Ere · **What happens:** seek, hold, pledge, land · **To what, where:** College, hall Reed, smother sound, Gael

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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 (I, Druids, debate contracts, Ere), 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:pg78491:12:147
# text = I sought the Druids’ College: in a hall Reed-strewn to smother sound they held debate On Firbolg and Dedannan contracts pledged Ere landed first the Gael.
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Druids	druid	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	College	College	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	Reed	reed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	strewn	strewn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	smother	smother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	debate	debate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
20	On	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Firbolg	Firbolg	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	Dedannan	Dedannan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	contracts	contract	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	pledged	pledge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	parataxis	_	_
26	Ere	Ere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	ccomp	_	_
28	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	30	advmod	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	Gael	Gael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | past | I | the Druids's College |  | a hall Reed |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent college=Theme in reed=Location |
| 2 | **hold** | past | Druids *= druid* | smother sound *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sound=Theme |
| 3 | **pledge** | past | debate contracts |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **land** | past | Ere | the Gael |  |  |  |  | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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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