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title: Ill-pleased He on his keepers turning slew a score, Yet peaceful pac… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ill-pleased He on his keepers turning slew a score, Yet peaceful paced at last betwixt their ranks, At each side fifty spears. Who acts: pleased keepers. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 16, with its dependency tree 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 4

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Ill-pleased He on his keepers turning slew a score, Yet peaceful paced at last betwixt their ranks, At each side fifty spears.

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**Who acts:** pleased keepers · **What happens:** turn, slay, pace · **To what, where:** score, fifty spears, last betwixt ranks

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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 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pleased keepers), 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:pg78491:16:4
# text = Ill-pleased He on his keepers turning slew a score, Yet peaceful paced at last betwixt their ranks, At each side fifty spears.
1	Ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
4	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	keepers	keeper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	nsubj	_	_
9	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	paced	pace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	betwixt	betwixt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	ranks	rank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	At	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	24	det	_	_
24	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
25	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	spears	spear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **slay** | past | Doubtful's pleased keepers  Doubtful | a score |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent score=Patient |
| 3 | **pace** | participle | Doubtful's pleased keepers  Doubtful *not said here* | fifty spears |  | keepers's last betwixt ranks |  | at each side | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location spear=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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