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title: On Usnach’s clan the Druid’s spells took hold, Feigning what was not… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: On Usnach’s clan the Druid’s spells took hold, Feigning what was not: and the wide green plain Seemed to their eyes a great flood slowly rolled From phantom hills. Who acts: spells, wide green plain, Druid. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 54

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On Usnach’s clan the Druid’s spells took hold, Feigning what was not: and the wide green plain Seemed to their eyes a great flood slowly rolled From phantom hills.

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**Who acts:** spells, wide green plain, Druid · **What happens:** take, feign, seem, roll, spell · **To what, where:** hold, clan, wide green plain, phantom hills

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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 (spells, wide green plain, Druid), 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:pg78491:7:54
# text = On Usnach’s clan the Druid’s spells took hold, Feigning what was not: and the wide green plain Seemed to their eyes a great flood slowly rolled From phantom hills.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	Usnach	Usnach	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	clan	clan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Druid	Druid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	spells	spell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	hold	hold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	Feigning	feign	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
13	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	12	obj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	14	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	green	green	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
22	Seemed	seem	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	flood	flood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
29	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	rolled	roll	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
31	From	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	phantom	phantom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the Druid's spells | hold |  | Usnach's clan |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hold=Theme on clan=Destination |
| 2 | **feign** | gerund | the Druid's spells *not said here* |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient |
| 3 | **seem** | participle |  | the wide green plain *not said here* |  |  |  | to hosts's eyes  a great flood | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **roll** | past | the wide green plain |  |  | phantom hills |  | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hill=Trajectory |
| 5 | **spell** |  | the Druid |  |  |  |  |  | nom spell «state transitive»: poss=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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