--- title: Then, louder when she heard those others grieve, And found that song… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Then, louder when she heard those others grieve, And found that song might now no more avail, She said: ‘Believe, O brothers young, believe In that great God, whose help can never fail! Who acts: louder, others, song, help. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's hero --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/10/18/) [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/) / [The foray of Queen Meave, and other le…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/) / [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/10/) / 18 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 18 Then, louder when she heard those others grieve, And found that song might now no more avail, She said: ‘Believe, O brothers young, believe In that great God, whose help can never fail! **Who acts:** louder, others, song, help · **What happens:** hear, grieve, find, avail, say, believe · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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, others, song, help), 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:pg78491:10:18 # text = Then, louder when she heard those others grieve, And found that song might now no more avail, She said: ‘Believe, O brothers young, believe In that great God, whose help can never fail! 1 Then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 3 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 louder loud ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 advmod _ _ 4 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 6 advmod _ _ 5 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 8 det _ _ 8 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 grieve grieve VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 And and CCONJ CC _ 12 cc _ _ 12 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ _ 13 that that SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 14 song song NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 15 might might AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 19 aux _ _ 16 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 19 advmod _ _ 17 no no ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 18 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 19 amod _ _ 19 avail avail NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 22 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 25 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 25 Believe believe VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 22 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 27 O of ADP IN Abbr=Yes 28 case _ _ 28 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 obl _ _ 29 young young ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 30 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 31 believe believe VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 25 parataxis _ _ 32 In in ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 33 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 35 nsubj _ _ 34 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 35 amod _ _ 35 God God PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 37 whose whose PRON WP$ Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 39 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 40 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 41 advmod _ _ 41 fail fail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ! ! PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hear** | past | louder *= loud* | | | | then | | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 2 | **grieve** | present | that others | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **find** | past | louder *= loud* *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **avail** | might | song | | | | now | | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | louder *= loud* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **believe** | infinitive | | | | | | of brothers; young *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 7 | **believe** | infinitive | | | | | | great God that *ccomp* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | | 8 | **not** **fail** | can | help | | | | | | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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:** «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 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/10/17/) - next →: [sentence 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/10/19/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/10/)