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title: That hour the royal host pierced through by grief, Clamoured, yet qu… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: That hour the royal host pierced through by grief, Clamoured, yet quailed at glance of Conal’s eye; While shouted Illan’s band, ‘Be thou our chief! Who acts: eye. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 7, with its dependen
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 17

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That hour the royal host pierced through by grief, Clamoured, yet quailed at glance of Conal’s eye; While shouted Illan’s band, ‘Be thou our chief!

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**Who acts:** eye · **What happens:** pierce, clamour, quail, shout, be, glance · **To what, where:** royal host, band, thou · **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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eye), 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:pg78491:7:17
# text = That hour the royal host pierced through by grief, Clamoured, yet quailed at glance of Conal’s eye; While shouted Illan’s band, ‘Be thou our chief!
1	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	pierced	pierce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	obl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	Clamoured	clamour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	quailed	quail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	glance	glance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	Conal	Conal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
23	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
24	Illan	Illan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	’s	's	PART	POS	_	24	case	_	_
26	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	cop	_	_
30	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	23	ccomp	_	_
31	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	chief	chief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pierce** | participle |  | the royal host  that hour *not said here* |  |  |  | by grief | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **clamour** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **quail** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | at glance of Conal's eye | vn flinch-40.5 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer at glance=Stimulus |
| 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | past |  | Illan's band |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Topic |
| 5 | **is a** | infinitive |  | thou |  |  |  | our chief *obj* | tree rules |
| 7 | **glance** |  | Conal's eye |  |  |  |  |  | nom glance «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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