--- title: Though few and bleeding fast Fearless upon a cloudy crag they stood,… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Though few and bleeding fast Fearless upon a cloudy crag they stood, Phalanx prepared to die, prepared not less Dearly to sell their lives, while past them streamed That panic-stricken throng. Who acts: few Phalanx, Ulidians. 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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 (few Phalanx, Ulidians), 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:pg78491:15:281 # text = Though few and bleeding fast Fearless upon a cloudy crag they stood, Phalanx prepared to die, prepared not less Dearly to sell their lives, while past them streamed That panic-stricken throng. 1 Though though SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 bleeding bleed VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 conj _ _ 5 fast fast ADV RB Degree=Pos 4 advmod _ _ 6 Fearless Fearless PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 7 upon upon ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 cloudy cloudy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 crag crag NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 11 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 10 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 14 Phalanx Phalanx PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 nsubj _ _ 15 prepared prepare VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 17 mark _ _ 17 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 15 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 prepared prepare VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 advcl _ _ 20 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 21 advmod _ _ 21 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 22 advmod _ _ 22 Dearly dearly ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 xcomp _ _ 23 to to PART TO _ 24 mark _ _ 24 sell sell VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 xcomp _ _ 25 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 lives life NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 while while SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 29 past past ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ _ 31 streamed stream VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 32 That that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 det _ _ 33 panic panic NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 34 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 stricken stricken ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 throng throng NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 15 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bleed** | gerund | few Phalanx *not said here* | Fearless | | | | upon a cloudy crag; fast *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent fearless=Source | | 2 | **stand** | past | Ulidians *= ulidian* | a cloudy crag *not said here* | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crag=Stimulus | | 3 | **prepare** | past | few Phalanx | | | | | | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | | 4 | **die** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | few Phalanx *not said here* | | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 5 | **prepare** | participle | few Phalanx *not said here* | | | | | dearly *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **sell** | to-infinitive | few Phalanx *not said here* | Ulidians's lives | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | | 7 | **stream** | past | few Phalanx *not said here* | that stricken throng | | | | past Ulidians *= ulidian* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location throng=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 278](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/15/278/) - next →: [sentence 280](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/15/280/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/15/)