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title: So forth the Brothers rode, while high o’erhead Through that primeva… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: So forth the Brothers rode, while high o’erhead Through that primeval forest’s woven screen Now in long lanes the sky its radiance shed, And now in purple stars of splendour keen; Nor far behind them marched the Usnach clan, Loud singing and on trampling like one man. Who acts: Brothers, Nor. A sent
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 17

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So forth the Brothers rode, while high o’erhead Through that primeval forest’s woven screen Now in long lanes the sky its radiance shed, And now in purple stars of splendour keen; Nor far behind them marched the Usnach clan, Loud singing and on trampling like one man.

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**Who acts:** Brothers, Nor · **What happens:** ride, weave, march · **To what, where:** high o’erhead, long lanes, Usnach clan

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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 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brothers, Nor), 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:pg78491:6:18
# text = So forth the Brothers rode, while high o’erhead Through that primeval forest’s woven screen Now in long lanes the sky its radiance shed, And now in purple stars of splendour keen; Nor far behind them marched the Usnach clan, Loud singing and on trampling like one man.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Brothers	Brother	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	o’erhead	o'erhead	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	_
10	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
11	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	primeval	primeval	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’s	's	PART	POS	_	13	case	_	_
15	woven	weave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	screen	screen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
17	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	lanes	lane	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sky	sky	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	radiance	radiance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	shed	shed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	purple	purple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	stars	star	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	splendour	splendour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	compound	_	_
34	keen	keen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
36	Nor	Nor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
37	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	39	advmod	_	_
38	behind	behind	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nmod	_	_
40	marched	march	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	Usnach	Usnach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	clan	clan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	Loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	singing	singing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
48	on	on	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	trampling	trampling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	conj	_	_
50	like	like	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	52	nummod	_	_
52	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | the Brothers | high o’erhead through that primeval forest's woven screen |  | long lanes | now | in purple stars of splendour keen; the sky *obl*; sky's radiance shed *nsubj*; forth *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **weave** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **march** | past | Nor behind Brothers | the Usnach clan and Loud singing and trampling |  |  |  | like one man | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme clan=Trajectory |

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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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