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title: The years ran on: the centuries three went by: Finola sang: ‘The sec… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The years ran on: the centuries three went by: Finola sang: ‘The second Woe is ended!’ Who acts: years, centuries, Finola. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 1

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The years ran on: the centuries three went by: Finola sang: ‘The second Woe is ended!’

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**Who acts:** years, centuries, Finola · **What happens:** run on, go by, sing, end · **To what, where:** second Woe

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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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (years, centuries, Finola), 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:pg78491:10:1
# text = The years ran on: the centuries three went by: Finola sang: ‘The second Woe is ended!’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nsubj	_	_
9	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Finola	Finola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	18	amod	_	_
18	Woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	ended	end	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **run on** | past | the years |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **go by** | past | the centuries |  |  |  |  | three *nsubj* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Finola |  |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 4 | **end** | present · passive |  | the second Woe |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality |

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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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