--- title: And drave with fifty chariots in array To where the land’s chief riv… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: And drave with fifty chariots in array To where the land’s chief river like a sea, There named Lough Derg, spreads out in gulf and bay And many a woody mountain sees its face Imaged in that clear flood with softened grace. Who acts: you, woody mountain. 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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 (you, woody mountain), 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:pg78491:8:37 # text = And drave with fifty chariots in array To where the land’s chief river like a sea, There named Lough Derg, spreads out in gulf and bay And many a woody mountain sees its face Imaged in that clear flood with softened grace. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 2 cc _ _ 2 drave drave VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 fifty fifty NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 5 nummod _ _ 5 chariots chariot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 array array NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 To to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 9 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 14 advmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ’s 's PART POS _ 11 case _ _ 13 chief chief NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 compound _ _ 14 river river NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 15 like like ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 There there PRON EX PronType=Dem 20 expl _ _ 20 named name VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 21 Lough Lough PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 xcomp _ _ 22 Derg Derg PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 spreads spread VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 25 out out ADP RP _ 24 compound:prt _ _ 26 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 gulf gulf NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 bay bay NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 And and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 obj _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 woody woody ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 mountain mountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 sees see VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 conj _ _ 36 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 face face NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ _ 38 Imaged image VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 37 acl _ _ 39 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 42 det _ _ 41 clear clear ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 amod _ _ 42 flood flood NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ _ 43 with with ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 softened soften VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 45 amod _ _ 45 grace grace NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **drave** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | array | | with fifty chariots; to the land's chief river like a sea | tree rules | | 2 | **name** | participle | you *not said here* | | | there | | Lough *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **spread out** | present | | | | gulf and bay | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in gulf=Location | | 4 | **see** | present | a woody mountain | many | | | | mountain's face *obj* | tree rules | | 5 | **image** | participle | | mountain's face *not said here* | | that clear flood with softened grace | | | tree rules | | 6 | **soften** | participle | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | 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 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/8/36/) - next →: [sentence 38](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/8/38/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/8/)