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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 123

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Rochad far off Beheld her coming; marked it with a smile; Welcomed her gaily; led her to the feast; Thence to his tent wherein was none beside.

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**Who acts:** Beheld, Rochad · **What happens:** come, mark, welcome, lead, be · **To what, where:** lion, Rochad, feast, none

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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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beheld, Rochad), 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:pg78491:14:125
# text = Rochad far off Beheld her coming; marked it with a smile; Welcomed her gaily; led her to the feast; Thence to his tent wherein was none beside.
1	Rochad	Rochad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
2	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
3	off	off	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Beheld	Beheld	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	coming	come	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	smile	smile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Welcomed	welcome	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
15	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	gaily	gaily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
24	Thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
28	wherein	wherein	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
30	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	8	obj	_	_
31	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | gerund | Beheld *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Rochad *nmod:poss* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **mark** | past | Rochad off Beheld | lion |  |  |  | with a smile | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with smile=Theme |
| 3 | **welcome** | participle | Rochad off Beheld *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lead** | past | Rochad off Beheld *not said here* | Rochad |  | the feast |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to feast=Destination |
| 5 | **is a** | past |  | none |  | thence |  |  | 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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