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title: Around them flocked Tuatha’s race in guile, Unarmed, with mocking vo… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Around them flocked Tuatha’s race in guile, Unarmed, with mocking voice and furtive mien, And scoffed: ‘Not thus your fathers fought erewhile! Who acts: invaders, fathers, Tuatha. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 7, 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 109

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Around them flocked Tuatha’s race in guile, Unarmed, with mocking voice and furtive mien, And scoffed: ‘Not thus your fathers fought erewhile!

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**Who acts:** invaders, fathers, Tuatha · **What happens:** flock, mock, scoff, fight, race · **To what, where:** race, guile, voice, erewhile

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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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (invaders, fathers, Tuatha), 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:pg78491:7:113
# text = Around them flocked Tuatha’s race in guile, Unarmed, with mocking voice and furtive mien, And scoffed: ‘Not thus your fathers fought erewhile!
1	Around	around	ADP	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	flocked	flock	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
4	Tuatha	Tuatha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	guile	guile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Unarmed	unarmed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	mocking	mock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
14	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	furtive	furtive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	mien	mien	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	scoffed	scoff	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	27	punct	_	_
22	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	24	advmod	_	_
24	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	fathers	father	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
27	fought	fight	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
28	erewhile	erewhile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flock** | past | invaders *= invader* | Tuatha's race |  | guile |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent race=Theme |
| 2 | **mock** | gerund | invaders *= invader* *not said here* | voice and furtive mien |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme |
| 3 | **scoff** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **fight** | past | your fathers | erewhile |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent erewhile=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **race** |  | Tuatha |  |  | guile |  |  | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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