--- title: A marvel! for the wounded man that slept All day with bandages enswa… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: A marvel! for the wounded man that slept All day with bandages enswathed, up-towered Full-armed for fight a champion spear in hand, Work of some god! Who acts: wounded man, marvel, god. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, pa --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/15/234/) [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/) / 234 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 234 A marvel! for the wounded man that slept All day with bandages enswathed, up-towered Full-armed for fight a champion spear in hand, Work of some god! **Who acts:** wounded man, marvel, god · **What happens:** sleep, enswath, tower, work 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 (wounded man, marvel, god), 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:pg78491:15:236 # text = A marvel! for the wounded man that slept All day with bandages enswathed, up-towered Full-armed for fight a champion spear in hand, Work of some god! 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 marvel marvel NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 wounded wounded ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 8 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 9 nsubj _ _ 9 slept sleep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 acl:relcl _ _ 10 All all DET DT PronType=Tot 11 det _ _ 11 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl:unmarked _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 bandages bandage NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 14 enswathed enswath VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 up up ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 16 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 18 towered tower VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 19 Full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 armed armed ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 xcomp _ _ 22 for for ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 fight fight NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obl _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 champion champion NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 spear spear NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 parataxis _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 30 Work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ _ 31 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 32 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 33 det _ _ 33 god god NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ! ! PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sleep** | past | the wounded man | | | | day | with bandages | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **enswath** | participle | a marvel for the wounded man | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **tower** | participle | a marvel for the wounded man *not said here* | | | | | for fight; a champion spear in hand and Work of some god *parataxis*; armed *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **work** | | some god | | | | | | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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 233](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/15/233/) - next →: [sentence 235](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/15/235/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/15/)