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title: Ere noon he landed on the Alban coast: Wild from the woods a stag th… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Ere noon he landed on the Alban coast: Wild from the woods a stag there issued bounding; The prince his mission grave forgat, and tossed Through the green-caverned forest loud-resounding, As he was ever wont, his hunting cry; And lo! the tents where Naisi dwelt were nigh. Who acts: Ere noon, prince,
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 53

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Ere noon he landed on the Alban coast: Wild from the woods a stag there issued bounding; The prince his mission grave forgat, and tossed Through the green-caverned forest loud-resounding, As he was ever wont, his hunting cry; And lo! the tents where Naisi dwelt were nigh.

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**Who acts:** Ere noon, prince, Loch, Naisi, tents · **What happens:** land, issue, bound, forgat, toss, cavern · **To what, where:** Wild, Alban coast, stag, caverned forest

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ere noon, prince, Loch, Naisi), 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:pg78491:5:53
# text = Ere noon he landed on the Alban coast: Wild from the woods a stag there issued bounding; The prince his mission grave forgat, and tossed Through the green-caverned forest loud-resounding, As he was ever wont, his hunting cry; And lo! the tents where Naisi dwelt were nigh.
1	Ere	Ere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Alban	Alban	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Wild	Wild	PROPN	NNP	_	4	obl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	woods	wood	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	stag	stag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
16	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	issued	issue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	bounding	bound	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
20	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	mission	mission	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	grave	grave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	forgat	forgat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	tossed	toss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
29	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
31	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	31	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	caverned	cavern	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	amod	_	_
34	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
35	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	35	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	resounding	resounding	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
39	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	43	mark	_	_
40	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
41	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	43	cop	_	_
42	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	43	advmod	_	_
43	wont	wont	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
46	hunting	hunting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	58	punct	_	_
49	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
50	lo	lo	INTJ	UH	_	58	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	50	punct	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	tents	tent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	58	nsubj	_	_
54	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	56	advmod	_	_
55	Naisi	Naisi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
56	dwelt	dwell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	acl:relcl	_	_
57	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	58	cop	_	_
58	nigh	nigh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** | past | Ere noon | Wild |  | the Alban coast |  | from the woods; Loch *nsubj*; a stag *obj* | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stag=Theme on coast=Destination |
| 2 | **issue** | participle |  | a stag *not said here* |  | there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bound** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **forgat** |  | the prince |  |  |  |  | Loch's mission *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **toss** | past | Ere noon *not said here* |  |  | the caverned forest |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent through forest=Destination |
| 6 | **cavern** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **is** | past | Loch |  |  |  | ever | Loch's hunting cry *conj*; wont *property* | tree rules |
| 8 | **dwell** | past | Naisi |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 9 | **is** | past | the tents |  |  |  |  | nigh *property* | tree rules |
| 10 | **cry** |  | Loch |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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