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title: O’er-awed though wroth The queen despatched in statelier embassage T… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: O’er-awed though wroth The queen despatched in statelier embassage Three warriors, and three ollambs, and three bards: With reverence they addressed him. Who acts: bards. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13, with its
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 21

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O’er-awed though wroth The queen despatched in statelier embassage Three warriors, and three ollambs, and three bards: With reverence they addressed him.

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**Who acts:** bards · **What happens:** awe, despatch, address · **To what, where:** awed wroth queen, statelier embassage, reverence, Cuchullain

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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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bards), 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:pg78491:13:23
# text = O’er-awed though wroth The queen despatched in statelier embassage Three warriors, and three ollambs, and three bards: With reverence they addressed him.
1	O’er	O'er	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	awed	awe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
4	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	wroth	wroth	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	despatched	despatch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	statelier	stately	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	11	amod	_	_
11	embassage	embassage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	Three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	ollambs	ollamb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	bards	bard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	With	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	reverence	reverence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **awe** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | O’er *compound* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **despatch** | participle |  | the awed wroth queen and three bards and reverence *not said here* |  | statelier embassage |  | Three warriors and three ollambs *obl:agent* | tree rules |
| 3 | **address** | past | bards *= bard* | reverence *not said here* | Cuchullain |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination |

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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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