--- title: To Eman’s gate They rode, and thrice beneath it blew their horn: Ind… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: To Eman’s gate They rode, and thrice beneath it blew their horn: Indifferent, yea, as one with either fate Alike content, she spake in careless scorn; ‘Omens the Druids find in bird and beast: A Druid I; a laughing one at least! Who acts: boughs, gate, Omens, I. 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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 (boughs, gate, Omens, I), 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:pg78491:6:42 # text = To Eman’s gate They rode, and thrice beneath it blew their horn: Indifferent, yea, as one with either fate Alike content, she spake in careless scorn; ‘Omens the Druids find in bird and beast: A Druid I; a laughing one at least! 1 To to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 Eman Eman PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ’s 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 gate gate NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 5 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 rode ride VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 thrice thrice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 xcomp _ _ 10 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 12 mark _ _ 11 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 12 nsubj _ _ 12 blew blow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 advcl _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 horn horn NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 15 : : PUNCT : _ 16 punct _ _ 16 Indifferent indifferent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 18 yea yea INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 as as ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 either either DET DT PronType=Ind 26 det _ _ 24 fate fate NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 25 Alike alike ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 content content NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 28 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 compound _ _ 29 spake speak NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 30 in in ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 careless careless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 32 amod _ _ 32 scorn scorn NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ; ; PUNCT : _ 38 punct _ _ 34 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 35 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 Omens omen NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 Druids druid NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 conj _ _ 38 find find VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 bird bird NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 beast beast NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 : : PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 44 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 Druid druid NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ _ 46 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ; ; PUNCT , _ 49 punct _ _ 48 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 laughing laugh VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 6 advcl _ _ 50 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 49 obj _ _ 51 at at ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 52 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 50 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ! ! PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ride** | past | boughs *= bough* | she spake in careless scorn | | Eman's gate | | as one with either fate Alike content; thrice *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to gate=Trajectory | | 2 | **blow** | past | gate | boughs's horn | | | | | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | | 3 | **find** | present | Omens and the Druids | | | | | in bird and beast | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **druid** | | I | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **laugh** | gerund | boughs *= bough* *not said here* | one | | least | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | 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 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/6/40/) - next →: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/6/42/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/6/)