--- title: Then, from his seat in that high hall remote Whereon all day in sile… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Then, from his seat in that high hall remote Whereon all day in silence he had sate Advanced, unguided, to that Infant’s cot Cathbad, the Druid old, and man of Fate, And o’er that infant held his arms out-spread, And raised to heaven his grey and sightless head Who acts: O’er. 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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 (O’er), 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:pg78491:2:91 # text = Then, from his seat in that high hall remote Whereon all day in silence he had sate Advanced, unguided, to that Infant’s cot Cathbad, the Druid old, and man of Fate, And o’er that infant held his arms out-spread, And raised to heaven his grey and sightless head 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 seat seat NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 7 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 10 nsubj _ _ 8 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 9 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 remote remote NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nmod _ _ 11 Whereon whereon ADV WRB PronType=Int 10 advmod _ _ 12 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 13 det _ _ 13 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obl:unmarked _ _ 14 in in ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 silence silence NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl:relcl _ _ 18 sate sate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 xcomp _ _ 19 Advanced Advanced PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 unguided unguided ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 23 to to ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 24 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 25 det _ _ 25 Infant Infant PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 26 ’s 's PART POS _ 25 case _ _ 27 cot cot NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:desc _ _ 28 Cathbad Cathbad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 31 Druid Druid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 compound _ _ 32 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 36 of of ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 Fate Fate PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 And and CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 40 o’er o'er NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 appos _ _ 41 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 43 nsubj _ _ 42 infant infant NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 43 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 acl:relcl _ _ 44 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 45 nmod:poss _ _ 45 arms arm NOUN NNS Number=Plur 43 obj _ _ 46 out out ADV RB _ 48 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 46 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 spread spread VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 43 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 50 And and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 raised raise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 conj _ _ 52 to to ADP IN _ 53 case _ _ 53 heaven heaven NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obl _ _ 54 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 58 nmod:poss _ _ 55 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 amod _ _ 56 and and CCONJ CC _ 57 cc _ _ 57 sightless sightless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 55 conj _ _ 58 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 obj _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | O’er *= o'er* | | | | day | | tree rules | | 2 | **sate** | infinitive | O’er *= o'er* *not said here* | Advanced | Cathbad that Infant's cot | | | | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Instrument advanced=Theme | | 3 | **hold** | past | o’er | O’er's arms | | | | infant *nsubj* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | | 4 | **spread** | participle | o’er *not said here* | | | | | out *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **raise** | participle | O’er *= o'er* *not said here* | O’er's grey head | | heaven | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme to heaven=Destination | 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. - 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