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title: He pledged his word: The battle day was fixed; the morrow morn: She… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: He pledged his word: The battle day was fixed; the morrow morn: She took that glittering torque whose splendours clasped Her mantle red; with it his mantle bound: Then with attendance to his tent he passed. Who acts: Ailill, scorn, glittering torque. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and othe
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 85

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He pledged his word: The battle day was fixed; the morrow morn: She took that glittering torque whose splendours clasped Her mantle red; with it his mantle bound: Then with attendance to his tent he passed.

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**Who acts:** Ailill, scorn, glittering torque · **What happens:** pledge, fix, take, glitter, clasp, mantle · **To what, where:** word, battle day, mantle bound, 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 (Ailill, scorn, glittering torque), 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:pg78491:13:87
# text = He pledged his word: The battle day was fixed; the morrow morn: She took that glittering torque whose splendours clasped Her mantle red; with it his mantle bound: Then with attendance to his tent he passed.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	pledged	pledge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
6	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	morrow	morrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	morn	morn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
16	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	torque	torque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	splendours	splendour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	_
23	clasped	clasp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
24	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	mantle	mantle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
26	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	mantle	mantle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	bound	bound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
34	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	36	advmod	_	_
35	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	attendance	attendance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	appos	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pledge** | past | Ailill | Ailill's word |  |  |  | the morrow morn *obl* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent word=Theme |
| 2 | **fix** | past · passive |  | the battle day |  |  |  |  | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **take** | past | scorn | Ailill's mantle bound |  |  |  | with torque | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bound=Theme |
| 4 | **glitter** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **clasp** | past | glittering torque and glittering torque and glittering torque's splendours's splendours |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **mantle** | infinitive | glittering torque and glittering torque and glittering torque's splendours's splendours *not said here* |  |  |  |  | scorn *nmod:poss*; red *property* | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **pass** | past | Ailill | Ailill's tent *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tent=Trajectory |
| 8 | **word** |  | Ailill |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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