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title: The youthful host Set forth their rural feast, whate’er the woods An… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The youthful host Set forth their rural feast, whate’er the woods And they that in them dwelt, swine-herds, and hinds, Yielded, their best: nor lacked it minstrel strain, Bird-song by autumn chilled, that brake through boughs Lit by unwarming sunshine. Who acts: youthful host, Setanta, that, autumn.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 26

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The youthful host Set forth their rural feast, whate’er the woods And they that in them dwelt, swine-herds, and hinds, Yielded, their best: nor lacked it minstrel strain, Bird-song by autumn chilled, that brake through boughs Lit by unwarming sunshine.

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**Who acts:** youthful host, Setanta, that, autumn · **What happens:** set, that, dwell, yield, lack, chill · **To what, where:** rural feast, swine herds, hinds, feast, autumn, boughs

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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 (youthful host, Setanta, that, autumn), 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:pg78491:12:28
# text = The youthful host Set forth their rural feast, whate’er the woods And they that in them dwelt, swine-herds, and hinds, Yielded, their best: nor lacked it minstrel strain, Bird-song by autumn chilled, that brake through boughs Lit by unwarming sunshine.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	youthful	youthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	Set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	rural	rural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	whate’er	whate'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	_
13	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	that	that	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	swine	swine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	herds	herd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	hinds	hind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	Yielded	yield	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
32	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	33	cc	_	_
33	lacked	lack	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obj	_	_
35	minstrel	minstrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	strain	strain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
38	Bird	bird	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	appos	_	_
41	by	by	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	autumn	autumn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
43	chilled	chill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	42	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	46	nsubj	_	_
46	brake	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	parataxis	_	_
47	through	through	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	boughs	bough	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	_
49	Lit	lit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	48	acl	_	_
50	by	by	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	unwarming	unwarming	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | participle | the youthful host and whate’er and the woods *not said here* | Setanta's rural feast |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient feast=Result |
| 2 | **that** | present | Setanta |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **dwell** | past | Setanta | swine herds |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **yield** | participle |  | hinds *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lack** | past | Setanta *not said here* | feast |  |  |  | minstrel strain *obj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **chill** | participle |  | autumn *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **break** | present | that |  |  | boughs |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through bough=Location |
| 8 | **lit** | participle |  | boughs *not said here* |  |  |  | by unwarming sunshine | tree rules |
| 10 | **sing** |  | autumn |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: by=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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