--- title: There the strongest bridge, Tower-guarded, longest held their host a… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: There the strongest bridge, Tower-guarded, longest held their host at bay; Longer had held it, save that from his place Fergus, the hour foreseen arrived, gave word ‘Fling wide the gates!’ Who acts: longest, Longer. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/15/151/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The foray of Queen Meave, and other le…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/) / [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/15/) / 151 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 151 There the strongest bridge, Tower-guarded, longest held their host at bay; Longer had held it, save that from his place Fergus, the hour foreseen arrived, gave word ‘Fling wide the gates!’ **Who acts:** longest, Longer · **What happens:** guard, hold, arrive, give · **To what, where:** strongest bridge, host, bay, bridge, place, word This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (longest, Longer), 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:pg78491:15:153 # text = There the strongest bridge, Tower-guarded, longest held their host at bay; Longer had held it, save that from his place Fergus, the hour foreseen arrived, gave word ‘Fling wide the gates!’ 1 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 8 expl _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 strongest strong ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 4 amod _ _ 4 bridge bridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj:pass _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 6 Tower Tower PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 guarded guard VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 longest long ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 11 nsubj _ _ 11 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 12 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 host host NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 bay bay NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ; ; PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 Longer Longer PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 18 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 19 held hold VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 8 conj _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 22 save save ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 obl _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 Fergus Fergus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 hour hour NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 31 foreseen foreseen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 32 arrived arrive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 26 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 conj _ _ 35 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obj _ _ 36 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 37 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 Fling fling NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 conj _ _ 38 wide wide ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 40 gates gate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **guard** | participle · passive | | the strongest bridge | | there | | | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary | | 2 | **hold** | past | longest | hills's host | | bay | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent host=Theme at bay=Location | | 3 | **hold** | past · perfect | Longer | bridge | | | | save that from Longer's place | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 4 | **arrive** | participle | | Longer's place *not said here* | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **give** | past | | word and Fling | | | | wide the gates | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | 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 150](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/15/150/) - next →: [sentence 152](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/15/152/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/15/)