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title: These tidings heard, yet higher swelled the acclaim; The Red Branch… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: These tidings heard, yet higher swelled the acclaim; The Red Branch Knights oft pledged that infant’s health, And prayed that all high gifts of wealth and fame, Great lordship, and great valour, and great wealth Might grace its life, and in the far-off days Compass its head with everlasting praise. 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 78

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These tidings heard, yet higher swelled the acclaim; The Red Branch Knights oft pledged that infant’s health, And prayed that all high gifts of wealth and fame, Great lordship, and great valour, and great wealth Might grace its life, and in the far-off days Compass its head with everlasting praise.

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**Who acts:** tidings, higher, Red Branch Knights, high gifts, off days · **What happens:** hear, swell, pledge, pray, grace, compass · **To what, where:** acclaim, life, head, wealth

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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 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tidings, higher, Red Branch Knights, high gifts), 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:pg78491:2:83
# text = These tidings heard, yet higher swelled the acclaim; The Red Branch Knights oft pledged that infant’s health, And prayed that all high gifts of wealth and fame, Great lordship, and great valour, and great wealth Might grace its life, and in the far-off days Compass its head with everlasting praise.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	higher	high	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	nsubj	_	_
7	swelled	swell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	acclaim	acclaim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	_
13	Branch	Branch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Knights	Knight	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
16	pledged	pledge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	infant	infant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	prayed	pray	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
24	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
25	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	27	det	_	_
26	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	gifts	gift	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	fame	fame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
33	Great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	lordship	lordship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
37	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	valour	valour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
41	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nsubj	_	_
43	Might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	44	aux	_	_
44	grace	grace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	ccomp	_	_
45	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
50	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
51	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	off	off	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	compound	_	_
54	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	55	nsubj	_	_
55	Compass	compass	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
56	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	57	nmod:poss	_	_
57	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obj	_	_
58	with	with	ADP	IN	_	60	case	_	_
59	everlasting	everlasting	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	60	amod	_	_
60	praise	praise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
61	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | participle | this tidings |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **swell** | past | higher | the acclaim |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient acclaim=Extent |
| 3 | **pledge** | past | the Red Branch Knights |  |  |  |  | infant health *ccomp* | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **pray** | past | the Red Branch Knights *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 5 | **grace** | might | all high gifts of wealth and fame and Great lordship and great valour | valour's life |  |  |  | great wealth *nsubj* | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme life=Destination |
| 6 | **compass** | present | off days | life's head |  |  |  | with everlasting praise | tree rules |
| 7 | **gift** |  |  | wealth and fame |  |  |  |  | nom gift «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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