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title: In mantle blue Clasped by a silver torque, and silver belt Enringed… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In mantle blue Clasped by a silver torque, and silver belt Enringed with silver rings innumerable That evening from his tent Ferdīa strode With large attendance. Who acts: silver belt, Ferdīa. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Open
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 29

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In mantle blue Clasped by a silver torque, and silver belt Enringed with silver rings innumerable That evening from his tent Ferdīa strode With large attendance.

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**Who acts:** silver belt, Ferdīa · **What happens:** clasp, ring, stride · **To what, where:** mantle blue, tent

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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 (silver belt, Ferdīa), 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:pg78491:13:31
# text = In mantle blue Clasped by a silver torque, and silver belt Enringed with silver rings innumerable That evening from his tent Ferdīa strode With large attendance.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	blue	blue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
4	Clasped	clasp	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	torque	torque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
11	silver	silver	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	belt	belt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	Enringed	enringed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	rings	ring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	innumerable	innumerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
19	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl:unmarked	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
23	Ferdīa	Ferdīa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	strode	stride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	acl:relcl	_	_
25	With	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	attendance	attendance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clasp** | participle |  | mantle blue *not said here* |  |  |  | by a silver torque | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **ring** | present | silver belt |  |  | mantle blue | evening | from bribe's tent | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in blue=Location |
| 3 | **stride** | past | Ferdīa | bribe's tent *not said here* |  |  |  | with large attendance | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tent=Trajectory |

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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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