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title: King and chief Scanned each his prize with careless-seeming eye; Yet… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: King and chief Scanned each his prize with careless-seeming eye; Yet oft their followers strove, while onward paced The royal arbiters with wands high held, Ruling the wrangling crew. Who acts: King, oft followers. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» b
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 88

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King and chief Scanned each his prize with careless-seeming eye; Yet oft their followers strove, while onward paced The royal arbiters with wands high held, Ruling the wrangling crew.

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**Who acts:** King, oft followers · **What happens:** scan, seem, strive, pace, hold, rule · **To what, where:** prize, royal arbiters, wands, wrangling crew

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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 (King, oft followers), 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:pg78491:15:90
# text = King and chief Scanned each his prize with careless-seeming eye; Yet oft their followers strove, while onward paced The royal arbiters with wands high held, Ruling the wrangling crew.
1	King	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	Scanned	scan	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	careless	careless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	seeming	seem	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	12	amod	_	_
12	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	Yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	_
18	strove	strive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	paced	pace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	arbiters	arbiter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	wands	wand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
28	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	Ruling	rule	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	advcl	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	wrangling	wrangling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	crew	crew	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scan** | participle | King and chief | Chief's prize |  |  |  | with careless seeming eye | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **strive** | past | kings's oft followers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pace** | past | kings's oft followers *not said here* | the royal arbiters |  |  |  | with wands; onward *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location arbiter=Theme |
| 5 | **hold** | participle |  | wands *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **rule** | gerund | kings's oft followers *not said here* | the wrangling crew |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crew=Theme |

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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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