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title: Then would the monarch doff his sullen mood With kingly joy, and, br… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then would the monarch doff his sullen mood With kingly joy, and, bright as May-day’s morn, Ride forth amid his hounds through wild and wood, Thrilling far glens with echoes of his horn; Or meet the land’s invaders face to face Well pleased, and homeward hew them with disgrace. Who acts: monarch, in
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 17

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Then would the monarch doff his sullen mood With kingly joy, and, bright as May-day’s morn, Ride forth amid his hounds through wild and wood, Thrilling far glens with echoes of his horn; Or meet the land’s invaders face to face Well pleased, and homeward hew them with disgrace.

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**Who acts:** monarch, invaders · **What happens:** doff, ride, thrill, meet, face, hew · **To what, where:** sullen mood, wild, far glens, homeward

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monarch, invaders), 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:pg78491:8:17
# text = Then would the monarch doff his sullen mood With kingly joy, and, bright as May-day’s morn, Ride forth amid his hounds through wild and wood, Thrilling far glens with echoes of his horn; Or meet the land’s invaders face to face Well pleased, and homeward hew them with disgrace.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	monarch	monarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	doff	doff	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sullen	sullen	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	mood	mood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	With	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	kingly	kingly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	bright	bright	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	May	May	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	’s	's	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	morn	morn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
23	Ride	ride	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
24	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	amid	amid	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	hounds	hound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
28	through	through	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	Thrilling	thrill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
34	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	glens	glen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	echoes	echo	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	40	nmod:poss	_	_
40	horn	horn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
42	Or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	’s	's	PART	POS	_	45	case	_	_
47	invaders	invader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nsubj	_	_
48	face	face	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	parataxis	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	face	face	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	48	xcomp	_	_
51	Well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	50	advmod	_	_
52	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	55	punct	_	_
54	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
55	homeward	homeward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	_
56	hew	hew	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	43	parataxis	_	_
57	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	56	obj	_	_
58	with	with	ADP	IN	_	59	case	_	_
59	disgrace	disgrace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **doff** | would | the monarch | monarch's sullen mood |  |  | then | with kingly joy | vn simple\_dressing-41.3.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mood=Theme |
| 2 | **ride** | infinitive |  |  |  | wild and wood |  | amid monarch's hounds; forth *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through wild=Trajectory |
| 3 | **thrill** | gerund |  | far glens |  |  |  | with echoes of monarch's horn | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus glen=Experiencer |
| 4 | **meet** | infinitive | the monarch *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **face** | present | the land's invaders |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **face** | to-infinitive | the land's invaders *not said here* |  |  |  |  | pleased, well *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **hew** | present |  | homeward |  |  |  | with disgrace; invaders *= invader* *obj* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient with disgrace=Instrument |

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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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