--- title: ‘Ofttimes I heard in Etive’s hunting grounds Their deep-toned voices… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Ofttimes I heard in Etive’s hunting grounds Their deep-toned voices rolling like the sea-- My Naisi led me from our native bounds: Ainli and Ardan followed. Who acts: I, Ofttimes, toned voices, Naisi. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Ofttimes, toned voices, Naisi), 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:pg78491:7:80 # text = ‘Ofttimes I heard in Etive’s hunting grounds Their deep-toned voices rolling like the sea-- My Naisi led me from our native bounds: Ainli and Ardan followed. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Ofttimes ofttime NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 3 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 5 in in ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 6 Etive Etive PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ’s 's PART POS _ 6 case _ _ 8 hunting hunting NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 9 grounds ground VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 11 deep deep ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 toned tone VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 amod _ _ 14 voices voice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 15 rolling roll VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 16 like like ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 -- -- PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 Naisi Naisi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 22 led lead VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 23 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 from from ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 25 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 26 native native ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ _ 27 bounds bound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 28 : : PUNCT : _ 29 punct _ _ 29 Ainli Ainli PROPN NNP Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 Ardan Ardan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 29 conj _ _ 32 followed follow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 33 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | I | Ofttimes *not said here* | | Etive's hunting | | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer ofttime=Stimulus | | 2 | **ground** | present | Ofttimes | Ofttimes's toned voices | | | | | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: agent=Theme voice=Destination | | 3 | **tone** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 4 | **roll** | gerund | Ofttimes's toned voices *not said here* | | | | | like the sea | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **lead** | past | My Naisi | me | | our native bounds | | | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme from bound=Destination | | 6 | **follow** | past | Ainli and Ardan | our native bounds *not said here* | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bound=Theme | | 7 | **hunt** | | Etive | | | | | | nom hunting «act transitive»: 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 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/7/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/7/81/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/7/)