--- title: As thus they stood the gates were opened wide; Anon forth stepped a… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: As thus they stood the gates were opened wide; Anon forth stepped a herald with this word, ‘Great Sirs, the King, himself by sickness tried, Within the Red-Branch House hath decked your board With Uladh’s best, from mead and river brought:’ They on each other gazed, yet answered nought. 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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 (eyes, Anon, King, mead), 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:pg78491:6:46 # text = As thus they stood the gates were opened wide; Anon forth stepped a herald with this word, ‘Great Sirs, the King, himself by sickness tried, Within the Red-Branch House hath decked your board With Uladh’s best, from mead and river brought:’ They on each other gazed, yet answered nought. 1 As as ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 thus thus ADV RB _ 4 obl _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 stood stand VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 gates gate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj:pass _ _ 7 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 aux:pass _ _ 8 opened open VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 ccomp _ _ 9 wide wide ADV RB _ 8 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ; ; PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 Anon Anon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 12 forth forth ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ _ 13 stepped step VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 herald herald NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 with with ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 18 det _ _ 18 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 Great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 Sirs sir NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 himself himself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 25 nmod _ _ 28 by by ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 29 sickness sickness NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 nmod _ _ 30 tried try VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 32 Within within ADP IN _ 39 mark _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 34 Red Red ADJ NNP Degree=Pos 37 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 35 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 Branch Branch PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 House House PROPN NNP Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 38 hath have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 39 aux:pass _ _ 39 decked deck VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 13 conj _ _ 40 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 41 board board NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obj _ _ 42 With with ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 Uladh Uladh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 44 ’s 's PART POS _ 43 case _ _ 45 best good ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 , , PUNCT , _ 48 punct _ _ 47 from from ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 48 mead mead NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nsubj _ _ 49 and and CCONJ CC _ 50 cc _ _ 50 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 conj _ _ 51 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 : : PUNCT : _ 58 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ’ ' PUNCT `` _ 58 punct _ _ 54 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 58 nsubj:pass _ _ 55 on on ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 54 appos _ _ 57 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 56 fixed _ _ 58 gazed gaze VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 59 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 60 yet yet CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 61 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 62 nought nought PRON NN PronType=Neg 61 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 63 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **stand** | past | eyes *= eye* | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **open** | past · passive | | the gates | | | | wide *property* | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 3 | **step** | past | Anon | a herald | | | | with this word; Great Sirs *obl*; forth *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location herald=Theme | | 4 | **try** | past | the King king by sickness | Great Sirs *not said here* | | | | | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sir=Eventuality | | 5 | **deck** | present · passive | | the Red Branch House | | | | with Uladh's best; your board *obj* | tree rules | | 6 | **bring** | past | mead and river | | | | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **gaze** | participle · passive | | eyes *= eye* | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | | nought | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent nought=Eventuality | 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 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/6/44/) - next →: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/6/46/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/6/)