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title: I sought the king: From hall deserted on to hall I roamed: I found h… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: I sought the king: From hall deserted on to hall I roamed: I found him in his armoury walled around With mail of warriors dead. Who acts: I, armoury. 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 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 147

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I sought the king: From hall deserted on to hall I roamed: I found him in his armoury walled around With mail of warriors dead.

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**Who acts:** I, armoury · **What happens:** seek, desert, roam, find, wall around, mail · **To what, where:** king, hall, warriors

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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, armoury), 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:pg78491:12:149
# text = I sought the king: From hall deserted on to hall I roamed: I found him in his armoury walled around With mail of warriors dead.
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	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	From	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	deserted	desert	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	roamed	roam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	armoury	armoury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	walled	wall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
22	around	around	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	With	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	mail	mail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	_
27	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	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 king |  | hall |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Theme |
| 2 | **desert** | participle |  | hall *not said here* |  | hall |  |  | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **roam** | past | I | hall *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Trajectory |
| 4 | **find** | past | I | King |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 5 | **wall around** | past | King's armoury |  |  |  |  | with mail of warriors; around *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **mail** |  |  | warriors |  |  |  |  | nom mail «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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