--- title: His lament had been sung and his funeral games played many, many yea… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: His lament had been sung and his funeral games played many, many years before, and Bro’tiarna sensed in him secrets, experiences, knowledges in which she could have no part, and for which she was greedily envious. Who acts: funeral games, Bro’tiarna, lily, husband. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/73/8/) [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/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter II. Said Cairide’:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/73/) / 8 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:, sentence 8 His lament had been sung and his funeral games played many, many years before, and Bro’tiarna sensed in him secrets, experiences, knowledges in which she could have no part, and for which she was greedily envious. **Who acts:** funeral games, Bro’tiarna, lily, husband · **What happens:** sing, play, sense, have, be, lament · **To what, where:** lament, secrets, part, knowledges This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter II. Said Cairide’:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (funeral games, Bro’tiarna, lily, husband), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2892:73:8 # text = His lament had been sung and his funeral games played many, many years before, and Bro’tiarna sensed in him secrets, experiences, knowledges in which she could have no part, and for which she was greedily envious. 1 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 2 nmod:poss _ _ 2 lament lament NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj:pass _ _ 3 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 4 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 5 aux:pass _ _ 5 sung sing VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 7 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 funeral funeral NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 games game NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 played play VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 11 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl:unmarked _ _ 15 before before ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 18 Bro’tiarna Bro'tiarna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 19 sensed sense VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 20 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 obl _ _ 22 secrets secret NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 experiences experience NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 knowledges knowledge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 27 in in ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 31 obl _ _ 29 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 acl:relcl _ _ 32 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 33 det _ _ 33 part part NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 36 for for ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 41 obl _ _ 38 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 39 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 41 cop _ _ 40 greedily greedily ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 41 envious envious ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · perfect · passive | | husband's lament | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | | 2 | **play** | past | husband's funeral games | | | | | before *property* | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **sense** | past | Bro’tiarna | secrets and experiences and knowledges | | | | in husband | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer secret=Stimulus | | 4 | **have** | could | lily | no part | | knowledges | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Patient | | 5 | **is** | past | lily | | | | | envious, greedily *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **lament** | | husband | | | | | | nom lament «communication 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:** «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/73/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/73/9/) - ↑ back to [Chapter II. 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