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title: Meantime the natives of those lonely regions Came fiercely forth fro… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Meantime the natives of those lonely regions Came fiercely forth from many a distant shore Though worsted oft, in ever thickening legions, Till now the foray swelled into the war; And still there flocked from Uladh’s coast in swarms Her noblest youth, their great one’s mates in arms. Who acts: you, 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 81

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Meantime the natives of those lonely regions Came fiercely forth from many a distant shore Though worsted oft, in ever thickening legions, Till now the foray swelled into the war; And still there flocked from Uladh’s coast in swarms Her noblest youth, their great one’s mates in arms.

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**Who acts:** you, distant shore, foray · **What happens:** meantime, worst, thicken, swell, flock · **To what, where:** natives, many, legions, war, coast

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, distant shore, foray), 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:pg78491:4:82
# text = Meantime the natives of those lonely regions Came fiercely forth from many a distant shore Though worsted oft, in ever thickening legions, Till now the foray swelled into the war; And still there flocked from Uladh’s coast in swarms Her noblest youth, their great one’s mates in arms.
1	Meantime	meantime	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	natives	native	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	lonely	lonely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
8	Came	come	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
9	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
10	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	obl	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	Though	though	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	worsted	worst	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	parataxis	_	_
18	oft	oft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	22	advmod	_	_
22	thickening	thicken	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	_
23	legions	legion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
25	Till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
26	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	29	advmod	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	foray	foray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
29	swelled	swell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
30	into	into	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
34	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
35	still	still	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
36	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	37	advmod	_	_
37	flocked	flock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
38	from	from	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	’s	's	PART	POS	_	39	case	_	_
41	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	swarms	swarm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
44	Her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
45	noblest	noble	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	46	amod	_	_
46	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
48	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	50	nmod:poss	_	_
49	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	’s	's	PART	POS	_	50	case	_	_
52	mates	mate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	conj	_	_
53	in	in	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meantime** | imperative | you *not said here* | the natives of that lonely regions |  | many |  | fiercely *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **worst** | past | a distant shore |  |  |  |  | oft, though *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **thicken** | gerund | a distant shore *not said here* | legions |  |  | ever |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent legion=Patient |
| 4 | **swell** | past | the foray |  |  | the war | now |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **flock** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  | Uladh's coast; there | still | in swarms  shore's noblest youth and brothers's great one's mates in arms | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=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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