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title: One time it chanced that, onward as they drifted Where Banna’s curre… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: One time it chanced that, onward as they drifted Where Banna’s current joins that stormy sea, A princely company with banners lifted Rode past on snow-white steeds and sang for glee: At once they knew those horsemen, form and face, Their native stock--Tuatha’s ancient race! Who acts: heart, growths,
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 78

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One time it chanced that, onward as they drifted Where Banna’s current joins that stormy sea, A princely company with banners lifted Rode past on snow-white steeds and sang for glee: At once they knew those horsemen, form and face, Their native stock--Tuatha’s ancient race!

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**Who acts:** heart, growths, current, stormy sea, Tuatha · **What happens:** chance, drift, join, lift, sing, know · **To what, where:** that, Rode, white steeds, horsemen

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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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, growths, current, stormy sea), 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:pg78491:9:79
# text = One time it chanced that, onward as they drifted Where Banna’s current joins that stormy sea, A princely company with banners lifted Rode past on snow-white steeds and sang for glee: At once they knew those horsemen, form and face, Their native stock--Tuatha’s ancient race!
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	chanced	chance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	onward	onward	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	drifted	drift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
11	Where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	15	advmod	_	_
12	Banna	Banna	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’s	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	joins	join	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
17	stormy	stormy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	princely	princely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	banners	banner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
25	lifted	lift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
26	Rode	Rode	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
27	past	past	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
35	for	for	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	glee	glee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	41	punct	_	_
38	At	at	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	41	obl	_	_
40	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
42	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	43	det	_	_
43	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
45	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	appos	_	_
46	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
47	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
49	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	51	nmod:poss	_	_
50	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
51	stock	stock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	Tuatha	Tuatha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	56	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	’s	's	PART	POS	_	53	case	_	_
55	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	56	amod	_	_
56	race	race	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chance** | past | heart | that |  |  | time |  | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Pivot |
| 2 | **drift** | past | growths *= growth* |  |  |  |  | onward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **join** | present | Banna's current |  |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **lift** | past | stormy sea | Rode |  | white steeds |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rode=Theme past steed=Destination |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | stormy sea *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for glee | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for glee=Recipient |
| 6 | **know** | past | growths *= growth* | that horsemen |  |  |  | growths's native stock *obl* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer horseman=Stimulus |
| 7 | **stock** |  | growths *= growth* |  |  |  |  |  | nom stock «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **race** |  | Tuatha |  |  |  |  |  | nom race «event intransitive»: 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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