--- title: In Felim’s house they kept the royal feast, And all the echoing hall… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: In Felim’s house they kept the royal feast, And all the echoing hall with tumult rang, Tumult that still from morn to eve increased; And now the tale they told, and now they sang. Who acts: readers, echoing hall, tale. 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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 (readers, echoing hall, tale), 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:pg78491:2:79 # text = In Felim’s house they kept the royal feast, And all the echoing hall with tumult rang, Tumult that still from morn to eve increased; And now the tale they told, and now they sang. 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 Felim Felim PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ’s 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 kept keep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 royal royal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 feast feast NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 11 And and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 12 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 15 det:predet _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 echoing echo VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 15 amod _ _ 15 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 tumult tumult NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ _ 18 rang ring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 Tumult tumult NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 22 still still ADV RB _ 24 advmod _ _ 23 from from ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 morn morn NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 eve eve NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 27 increased increase VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 34 punct _ _ 29 And and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 30 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 34 advmod _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 tale tale NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 33 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 34 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 37 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 39 advmod _ _ 38 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **keep** | past | readers *= reader* | the royal feast | | Felim's house | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent feast=Theme in house=Location | | 2 | **echo** | gerund | | | | | | | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **ring** | past | all echoing hall with tumult | Tumult | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tumult=Theme | | 4 | **increase** | participle · passive | | Tumult | | | | morn to eve *nsubj:pass* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | | 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | the tale | | | | now | readers *= reader* *nsubj* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | readers *= reader* | | | | now | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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 73](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/2/73/) - next →: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/2/75/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/2/)