--- title: The centuries passed: her loud, exultant lay Finola sang, their time… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: The centuries passed: her loud, exultant lay Finola sang, their time of penance done, And ended: ‘Lo, to us it seems a day; Not less the dread nine hundred years are run! Who acts: centuries, exultant, Finola, it. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (centuries, exultant, Finola, it), 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:pg78491:10:29 # text = The centuries passed: her loud, exultant lay Finola sang, their time of penance done, And ended: ‘Lo, to us it seems a day; Not less the dread nine hundred years are run! 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 centuries century NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 nsubj _ _ 3 passed pass VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 5 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 6 nmod:poss _ _ 6 loud loud ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 exultant exultant NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 10 Finola Finola PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 14 nmod:poss _ _ 14 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 penance penance NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 And and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 ended end VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 21 : : PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 22 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 Lo lo INTJ UH _ 28 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 26 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 seems seem VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 32 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 38 amod _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 35 det _ _ 35 dread dread NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 36 nine nine NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 compound _ _ 37 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 38 nummod _ _ 38 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 nsubj _ _ 39 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 aux:pass _ _ 40 run run VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pass** | past | the centuries | | | | | loud *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **lie** | past | exultant | | | | time | | tree rules | | 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Finola | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | | 4 | **do** | participle | exultant *not said here* | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **end** | past | | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 6 | **seem** | present | it | | | | day | | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **year** | | the dread | | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **run** | present · passive | | less hundred years | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | 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 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/10/28/) - next →: [sentence 30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/10/30/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/10/)