--- title: With varying fortune long time raged the feud: Clan Usnach triumphed… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: With varying fortune long time raged the feud: Clan Usnach triumphed now: anon the foe: And oft, a swordless warrior mild of mood, Amid those Three was Deirdré seen: and lo! Who acts: varying, Clan. 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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 (varying, Clan), 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:pg78491:4:85 # text = With varying fortune long time raged the feud: Clan Usnach triumphed now: anon the foe: And oft, a swordless warrior mild of mood, Amid those Three was Deirdré seen: and lo! 1 With with SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 varying vary VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 csubj _ _ 3 fortune fortune NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 4 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl:unmarked _ _ 6 raged rage VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 feud feud NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 : : PUNCT : _ 12 punct _ _ 10 Clan Clan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 11 Usnach Usnach PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 flat _ _ 12 triumphed triumph VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 15 anon anon NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 foe foe NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 : : PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 19 And and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 oft oft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 23 swordless swordless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 warrior warrior NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 25 mild mild ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 mood mood NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 Amid Amid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 15 conj _ _ 30 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 31 det _ _ 31 Three Three PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 32 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux:pass _ _ 33 Deirdré Deirdré PROPN NNP Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 34 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 35 : : PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 lo lo INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ! ! PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **vary** | gerund | | fortune | | | time | | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer fortune=Patient | | 2 | **rage** | past | varying | the feud | | | | | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location feud=Theme | | 3 | **triumph** | past | Clan | anon the foe and Amid | | | now | | tree rules | | 4 | **see** | past · passive | | that Three | | | | Deirdré *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | 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 83](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/4/83/) - next →: [sentence 85](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/4/85/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/4/)