--- title: Around the Red-Branch House that Bonacht host Gathered once more: bu… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Around the Red-Branch House that Bonacht host Gathered once more: but on the left the might Of Ardan backward hurled them and their boast; And Ainli’s strength rebuked them on the right: Till came to Conor’s heart a wingèd thought; And ‘Fire!’ he cried; and branch and beam were brought, Who acts: Bo --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/7/21/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The foray of Queen Meave, and other le…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/) / [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/7/) / 21 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 21 Around the Red-Branch House that Bonacht host Gathered once more: but on the left the might Of Ardan backward hurled them and their boast; And Ainli’s strength rebuked them on the right: Till came to Conor’s heart a wingèd thought; And ‘Fire!’ he cried; and branch and beam were brought, **Who acts:** Bonacht host, Ardan, strength, Till, Branch House, hosts · **What happens:** gather, hurl, rebuke, come, cry, bring · **To what, where:** Branch House, hosts, right, heart, Fire, branch 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 (Bonacht host, Ardan, strength, Till), 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:pg78491:7:21 # text = Around the Red-Branch House that Bonacht host Gathered once more: but on the left the might Of Ardan backward hurled them and their boast; And Ainli’s strength rebuked them on the right: Till came to Conor’s heart a wingèd thought; And ‘Fire!’ he cried; and branch and beam were brought, 1 Around around ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 3 Red Red PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 4 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 5 Branch Branch PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 House house NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 10 obj _ _ 8 Bonacht Bonacht PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 host host NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 Gathered gather VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 11 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 12 advmod _ _ 12 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 : : PUNCT : _ 62 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 62 cc _ _ 15 on on ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 left left NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 obl _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 19 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 21 aux _ _ 20 Of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 Ardan Ardan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 backward backward ADV RB _ 23 advmod _ _ 23 hurled hurl VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 62 advcl _ _ 24 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 26 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 boast boast NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 ; ; PUNCT : _ 33 punct _ _ 29 And and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 30 Ainli Ainli PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ’s 's PART POS _ 30 case _ _ 32 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nsubj _ _ 33 rebuked rebuke VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 conj _ _ 34 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 right right NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 : : PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 39 Till Till PROPN NNP Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 40 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 conj _ _ 41 to to ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 42 Conor Conor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 44 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 43 ’s 's PART POS _ 42 case _ _ 44 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obl _ _ 45 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 47 det _ _ 46 wingèd wingèd ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 47 amod _ _ 47 thought thought NOUN NN Number=Sing 44 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ; ; PUNCT : _ 55 punct _ _ 49 And and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 50 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 51 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 Fire fire NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 ! ! PUNCT . _ 51 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 51 punct _ _ 54 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 55 nsubj _ _ 55 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 56 ; ; PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ _ 57 and and CCONJ CC _ 62 cc _ _ 58 branch branch NOUN NN Number=Sing 62 nsubj:pass _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 60 beam beam NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 conj _ _ 61 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 62 aux:pass _ _ 62 brought bring VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 63 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **gather** | past | Bonacht host | the Branch House | | | | | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | | 2 | **hurl** | past | the Ardan | hosts *= host* | | | | backward *property* | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 3 | **rebuke** | past | Ainli's strength | hosts *= host* | | the right | | | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | | 4 | **come** | past | Till | | | Conor's heart and a wingèd thought | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to heart=Initial\_Location | | 5 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Till | Fire | | | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **bring** | past · passive | the Branch House *not said here* | branch and beam | | the left | | | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on left=Destination | | 8 | **boast** | | hosts *= host* | | | | | | nom boast «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/7/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/7/22/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/7/)