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title: From bannered stalls the Red Branch Knights drew nigh Circling that… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: From bannered stalls the Red Branch Knights drew nigh Circling that cradle. ’ Who acts: Branch Knights. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 83

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From bannered stalls the Red Branch Knights drew nigh Circling that cradle. ’

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**Who acts:** Branch Knights · **What happens:** draw, circle · **To what, where:** cradle

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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 (Branch Knights), 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:pg78491:2:88
# text = From bannered stalls the Red Branch Knights drew nigh Circling that cradle. ’
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	bannered	bannered	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	stalls	stall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
6	Branch	Branch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	Knights	Knight	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	Circling	circle	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | the Branch Knights |  |  |  |  | from bannered stalls | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from stall=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **circle** | gerund | the Branch Knights *not said here* | that cradle |  |  |  | nigh *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cradle=Co-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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