--- title: Scorning King Conor’s law, O’er it in summer maidens tripped unseen,… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Scorning King Conor’s law, O’er it in summer maidens tripped unseen, And told her tales of all they heard and saw, And flowers in May, and fruits in summer brought her, Or with her danced beside the moonlit water. Who acts: O’er, tales, flowers. 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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, tales, flowers), 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:pg78491:3:18 # text = Scorning King Conor’s law, O’er it in summer maidens tripped unseen, And told her tales of all they heard and saw, And flowers in May, and fruits in summer brought her, Or with her danced beside the moonlit water. 1 Scorning scorn VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 12 advcl _ _ 2 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nmod:poss _ _ 3 Conor Conor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 4 ’s 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 5 law law NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 O’er O'er PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 8 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 appos _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 compound _ _ 11 maidens maiden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nmod _ _ 12 tripped trip VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 13 unseen unseen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 And and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 told tell VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 conj _ _ 17 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 tales tale NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 19 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 20 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 18 nmod _ _ 21 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 26 And and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 27 flowers flower NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 28 in in ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 fruits fruit NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 33 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 summer summer NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nmod _ _ 35 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 36 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 38 Or or CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 16 iobj _ _ 41 danced dance VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 40 acl _ _ 42 beside beside ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 moonlit moonlit ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **scorn** | gerund | O’er in summer maidens *not said here* | King's law | | | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme | | 2 | **trip** | past | O’er in summer maidens | | | | | unseen *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | past | O’er in summer maidens *not said here* | O’er's tales of all | O’er *= o'er* | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent her=Recipient tale=Topic | | 4 | **hear** | past | tales *= tale* | O’er's tales of all *not said here* | | | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus | | 5 | **see** | past | tales *= tale* *not said here* | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **bring** | past | flowers in May | | O’er *= o'er* | | | fruits in summer *nsubj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | | 7 | **dance** | participle | | | | the moonlit water | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside water=Location | | 8 | **tell** | | O’er *= o'er* | | | | | | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/3/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/3/19/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/3/)