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title: In regal pomp The host confederate followed, keen to watch With Meav… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In regal pomp The host confederate followed, keen to watch With Meave, and Ailill, and with Finobar, All passions of a fight unmatched till then; While clustered here and there, on rock or mound, Minstrel and food-purveyor groom and leech With healing herbs, and charms. Who acts: host, passions. A s
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 93

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In regal pomp The host confederate followed, keen to watch With Meave, and Ailill, and with Finobar, All passions of a fight unmatched till then; While clustered here and there, on rock or mound, Minstrel and food-purveyor groom and leech With healing herbs, and charms.

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**Who acts:** host, passions · **What happens:** confederate, follow, watch, unmatch, cluster, leech · **To what, where:** charms, regal pomp

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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 (host, passions), 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:pg78491:13:95
# text = In regal pomp The host confederate followed, keen to watch With Meave, and Ailill, and with Finobar, All passions of a fight unmatched till then; While clustered here and there, on rock or mound, Minstrel and food-purveyor groom and leech With healing herbs, and charms.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	regal	regal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	pomp	pomp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	confederate	confederate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	keen	keen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	With	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	Ailill	Ailill	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Finobar	Finobar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
22	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
23	passions	passion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	unmatched	unmatch	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
28	till	till	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
32	clustered	cluster	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
33	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	on	on	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	parataxis	_	_
39	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	mound	mound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
42	Minstrel	Minstrel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	appos	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
44	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	44	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	purveyor	purveyor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	groom	groom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
49	leech	leech	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
50	With	with	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	healing	healing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	compound	_	_
52	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	49	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	charms	charm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confederate** | infinitive | the host | charms |  | regal pomp |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **follow** | participle | the host *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **watch** | to-infinitive | the host *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Meave and Ailill | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **unmatch** | participle | all passions of a fight |  |  |  |  | with Finobar | tree rules |
| 5 | **cluster** | participle |  |  |  | here; there |  | rock or mound *parataxis* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **leech** | infinitive | the host *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with healing herbs | tree rules |

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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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