--- title: Swiftly meanwhile On marched the host confederate: bootless speed; S… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Swiftly meanwhile On marched the host confederate: bootless speed; Since ever one day’s progress by the next Was cancelled; tortuous mind made tortuous course Now bent awry to capture spoil, anon To avenge some private wrong. Who acts: tortuous mind, one day. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tortuous mind, one day), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78491:14:38 # text = Swiftly meanwhile On marched the host confederate: bootless speed; Since ever one day’s progress by the next Was cancelled; tortuous mind made tortuous course Now bent awry to capture spoil, anon To avenge some private wrong. 1 Swiftly swiftly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 2 meanwhile meanwhile ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 On on SCONJ IN _ 4 mark _ _ 4 marched march VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 host host NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ _ 7 confederate confederate NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 bootless bootless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 speed speed NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 12 Since since ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 13 ever ever ADV RB PronType=Ind 14 advmod _ _ 14 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 15 nummod _ _ 15 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ’s 's PART POS _ 15 case _ _ 17 progress progress NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 18 by by SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 19 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 20 next next ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 nsubj:pass _ _ 21 Was Be PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 22 aux:pass _ _ 22 cancelled cancel VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 26 punct _ _ 24 tortuous tortuous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 26 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 27 tortuous tortuous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 28 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 29 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 30 bent bend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 advcl _ _ 31 awry awry ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 xcomp _ _ 32 to to PART TO _ 33 mark _ _ 33 capture capture VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 spoil spoil NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 36 anon anon NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 37 To to PART TO _ 38 mark _ _ 38 avenge avenge VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 33 advcl _ _ 39 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 41 nsubj _ _ 40 private private ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 amod _ _ 41 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **march** | past | | the host confederate and bootless speed | | | since one day's progress | meanwhile, swiftly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme confederate=Trajectory | | 2 | **cancel** | passive | | next | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **make** | past | tortuous mind | tortuous course | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset course=Product | | 4 | **bend** | past | tortuous mind *not said here* | | | | now | awry *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **capture** | to-infinitive | tortuous mind *not said here* | spoil and anon | | | | | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoil=Theme | | 6 | **avenge** | to-infinitive | tortuous mind *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **progress** | | one day | | | | | | nom progress «act intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 35](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/14/35/) - next →: [sentence 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/14/37/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/14/)