--- title: Shepherds, through wood-skirts peering, saw the end, The Donn, at su… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Shepherds, through wood-skirts peering, saw the end, The Donn, at sunset, rushing t’ward the north, And, on his conqueror’s back--their horns entwined-- Fionbannah dead! Who acts: wood skirts, Shepherds, horns. 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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 (wood skirts, Shepherds, horns), 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:pg78491:16:9 # text = Shepherds, through wood-skirts peering, saw the end, The Donn, at sunset, rushing t’ward the north, And, on his conqueror’s back--their horns entwined-- Fionbannah dead! 1 Shepherds shepherd NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 3 through through ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 5 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 skirts skirt NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 7 peering peer VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 end end NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Donn Donn PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 16 at at ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 sunset sunset NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 rushing rush VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 9 advcl _ _ 20 t’ward t'ward ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 north north NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 24 And and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 26 on on ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 conqueror conqueror NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ’s be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 30 back back ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 -- -- PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 nsubj _ _ 34 entwined entwine VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 29 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 -- -- PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 Fionbannah Fionbannah PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ! ! PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **peer** | gerund | wood skirts *not said here* | | | | | | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **see** | past | Shepherds through wood skirts | the end the Donn | | | sunset | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer end=Stimulus | | 3 | **rush** | gerund | Shepherds through wood skirts *not said here* | the north | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **entwine** | past | Shepherds's horns | | | | | | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/16/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/16/10/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/16/)