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title: Then Trendorn went, a sordid churl, ill-starred, And found that mans… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Trendorn went, a sordid churl, ill-starred, And found that mansion’s gateways closed and barred: Who acts: Trendorn. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 6, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 75

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Then Trendorn went, a sordid churl, ill-starred, And found that mansion’s gateways closed and barred:

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**Who acts:** Trendorn · **What happens:** go, star, find, close, bar · **To what, where:** sordid churl, gateways · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Trendorn), 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:pg78491:6:76
# text = Then Trendorn went, a sordid churl, ill-starred, And found that mansion’s gateways closed and barred:
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Trendorn	Trendorn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	sordid	sordid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	churl	churl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	starred	star	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
16	mansion	mansion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’s	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	gateways	gateway	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	closed	close	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	ccomp	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	barred	bar	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Trendorn | a sordid churl |  |  | then |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **star** | participle |  | a sordid churl *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn captain-29.8-1-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **find** | past | Trendorn *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **close** | participle · passive |  | mansion's gateways |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **bar** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |

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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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