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title: But evermore the younger three made moan; And still their moans more… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But evermore the younger three made moan; And still their moans more loud and louder grew; And still Finola o’er that sea of stone For their sake fragments of wild wailings threw; And ever as she sang, the on-driving snow Choked the sweet strain; yet still she warbled low. Who acts: louder, wild wai
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 17

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But evermore the younger three made moan; And still their moans more loud and louder grew; And still Finola o’er that sea of stone For their sake fragments of wild wailings threw; And ever as she sang, the on-driving snow Choked the sweet strain; yet still she warbled low.

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**Who acts:** louder, wild wailings, moan, driving snow, snow, things · **What happens:** evermore, make, grow, throw, sing, drive · **To what, where:** younger three made moan, sake fragments, sweet strain

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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 (louder, wild wailings, moan, driving snow), 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:pg78491:10:17
# text = But evermore the younger three made moan; And still their moans more loud and louder grew; And still Finola o’er that sea of stone For their sake fragments of wild wailings threw; And ever as she sang, the on-driving snow Choked the sweet strain; yet still she warbled low.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	evermore	evermore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
5	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
6	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	moan	moan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
9	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	moans	moan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	14	advmod	_	_
14	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	louder	loud	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	nsubj	_	_
17	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	still	still	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
21	Finola	Finola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	o’er	o'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
23	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	det	_	_
24	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	For	for	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	fragments	fragment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	wailings	wailing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
36	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	40	advmod	_	_
38	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
39	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
40	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
43	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	45	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	43	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	driving	drive	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	46	amod	_	_
46	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nsubj	_	_
47	Choked	choke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	conj	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	50	det	_	_
49	sweet	sweet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	strain	strain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	55	punct	_	_
52	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
53	still	still	ADV	RB	_	55	advmod	_	_
54	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	55	nsubj	_	_
55	warbled	warble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
56	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **evermore** | past |  | the younger three made moan |  |  |  | Finola o’er for things's sake fragments *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 3 | **grow** | past | louder |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **throw** | past | wild wailings | things's sake fragments *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fragment=Theme |
| 5 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | moan |  |  |  | ever |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 6 | **drive** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **choke** | past | the driving snow | the sweet strain |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme strain=Destination |
| 8 | **warble** | past | snow |  |  |  | yet; still | low *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **moan** |  | things *= thing* |  |  |  |  |  | nom moan «communication 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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