--- title: Thus much and more the legends old avouch-- ‘Ocean,’ King Conor’s sh… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Thus much and more the legends old avouch-- ‘Ocean,’ King Conor’s shield; for wroth was he A prince’s head beneath his shade should crouch, And wroth Emania’s coming doom to see: Three times the shield sent forth that sea-like roar; And thrice the three chief waves on Erin’s shore Who acts: you, Fia --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/7/9/) [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/) / 9 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 9 Thus much and more the legends old avouch-- ‘Ocean,’ King Conor’s shield; for wroth was he A prince’s head beneath his shade should crouch, And wroth Emania’s coming doom to see: Three times the shield sent forth that sea-like roar; And thrice the three chief waves on Erin’s shore **Who acts:** you, Fiacre, shade, shield, wroth Emania · **What happens:** avouch, be, crouch, come, see, send · **To what, where:** Ocean, coming doom, Three times 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 (you, Fiacre, shade, shield), 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:pg78491:7:9 # text = Thus much and more the legends old avouch-- ‘Ocean,’ King Conor’s shield; for wroth was he A prince’s head beneath his shade should crouch, And wroth Emania’s coming doom to see: Three times the shield sent forth that sea-like roar; And thrice the three chief waves on Erin’s shore 1 Thus thus ADV RB _ 2 advmod _ _ 2 much much ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 4 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 legends legend NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl:unmarked _ _ 7 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 avouch avouch VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 9 -- -- PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 Ocean Ocean PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 13 ’ ' ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 14 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod:poss _ _ 15 Conor Conor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 16 ’s 's PART POS _ 14 case _ _ 17 shield shield NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ; ; PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 19 for for ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 20 wroth wroth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 21 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 23 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 prince prince NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ’s 's PART POS _ 24 case _ _ 26 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 27 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 31 mark _ _ 28 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 shade shade NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nsubj _ _ 30 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 crouch crouch VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 33 And and CCONJ CC _ 38 cc _ _ 34 wroth wroth ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 Emania Emania PROPN NNP Number=Sing 38 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ’s 's PART POS _ 35 case _ _ 37 coming come VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 38 amod _ _ 38 doom doom NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 39 to to PART TO _ 40 mark _ _ 40 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 : : PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ _ 42 Three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 43 nummod _ _ 43 times time NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl:unmarked _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 shield shield NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 nsubj _ _ 46 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 43 acl:relcl _ _ 47 forth forth ADV RB _ 46 advmod _ _ 48 that that SCONJ IN _ 52 mark _ _ 49 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 50 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 roar roar NOUN NN Number=Sing 46 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ; ; PUNCT , _ 59 punct _ _ 54 And and CCONJ CC _ 59 cc _ _ 55 thrice thrice ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 59 det _ _ 57 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 59 nummod _ _ 58 chief chief ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 59 amod _ _ 59 waves wave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 obl _ _ 60 on on ADP IN _ 63 case _ _ 61 Erin Erin PROPN NNP Number=Sing 63 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 62 ’s 's PART POS _ 61 case _ _ 63 shore shore NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 nmod _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **avouch** | imperative | you *not said here* | Ocean | | | | ' King's shield; thrice the three chief waves on Erin's shore | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past | Fiacre | | | | | for a prince's wroth head; a prince *nmod:poss* | tree rules | | 3 | **crouch** | should | Fiacre's shade | wroth Emania's coming doom Three times | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location doom=Theme | | 4 | **come** | gerund | | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **see** | to-infinitive | Fiacre's shade *not said here* | wroth Emania's coming doom Three times *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **send** | past | the shield | Three times *not said here* | | | | like roar *advcl*; forth *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme | | 7 | **shade** | | Fiacre | | | | | | nom shade «state transitive»: poss=agent | | 8 | **doom** | | wroth Emania | | | | | | nom doom «event 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 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/7/8/) - next →: [sentence 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/7/10/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/7/)