--- title: Direful his mien; Massive his stride; his body brawny and huge; For,… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Direful his mien; Massive his stride; his body brawny and huge; For, though of Gaelic race, the stock of Ir, With him was mingled giant blood of old, Wild blood of Nemedh’s brood that hurled sea rocks ’Gainst the Fomorian. Who acts: brood, morn. 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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 (brood, morn), 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:pg78491:12:80 # text = Direful his mien; Massive his stride; his body brawny and huge; For, though of Gaelic race, the stock of Ir, With him was mingled giant blood of old, Wild blood of Nemedh’s brood that hurled sea rocks ’Gainst the Fomorian. 1 Direful Direful PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 3 nmod:poss _ _ 3 mien mien NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ; ; PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 5 Massive massive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 stride stride NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ; ; PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 9 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 10 nmod:poss _ _ 10 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ _ 11 brawny brawny ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 huge huge ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 15 For for ADP IN _ 20 case _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 though though SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 Gaelic gaelic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 race race NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 stock stock NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 conj _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 Ir Ir PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 With with SCONJ IN _ 30 mark _ _ 28 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 30 nsubj:pass _ _ 29 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 aux:pass _ _ 30 mingled mingle VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 31 giant giant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ _ 33 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 34 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 36 Wild wild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 39 Nemedh Nemedh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 40 ’s 's PART POS _ 39 case _ _ 41 brood brood NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 42 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 43 hurled hurl VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 acl:relcl _ _ 44 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 compound _ _ 45 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ _ 46 ’ 's PART POS _ 45 case _ SpaceAfter=No 47 Gainst Gainst PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 appos _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 Fomorian Fomorian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 47 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **mingle** | past · passive | | morn | | | | giant blood of old Wild blood of Nemedh's brood *obj* | tree rules | | 2 | **hurl** | past | Nemedh's brood | sea rocks | | | | | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Theme | | 4 | **stride** | | morn | | | | | | nom stride «act transitive»: poss=agent | | 5 | **stock** | | | Ir | | | | | nom stock «possession transitive»: of=patient | 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 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/12/77/) - next →: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/12/79/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/12/)