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title: The warriors frowned; Yet all men feared the Druid beard and rod: Th… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The warriors frowned; Yet all men feared the Druid beard and rod: They stood in silence. Who acts: warriors. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 32

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The warriors frowned; Yet all men feared the Druid beard and rod: They stood in silence.

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**Who acts:** warriors · **What happens:** frown, fear, stand · **To what, where:** warriors, Druid beard, silence

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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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (warriors), 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:pg78491:15:34
# text = The warriors frowned; Yet all men feared the Druid beard and rod: They stood in silence.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	frowned	frown	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Druid	Druid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	rod	rod	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
15	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **frown** | participle |  | the warriors *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fear** | past | the warriors | the Druid beard and rod |  |  |  | all men *nsubj* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beard=Stimulus |
| 3 | **stand** | past | warriors *= warrior* |  |  | silence |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in silence=Location |

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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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