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title: More closely drew the orphans, each to each:-- ’Twas then Finola rai… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: More closely drew the orphans, each to each:-- ’Twas then Finola raised her dirge on high, As nearer yet they drifted to the beach In hope one fragment of past days to spy; ‘Upon our father’s house hath fallen a change; And as a dead man’s face this place is strange! Who acts: Finola, orphans, place
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 34

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More closely drew the orphans, each to each:-- ’Twas then Finola raised her dirge on high, As nearer yet they drifted to the beach In hope one fragment of past days to spy; ‘Upon our father’s house hath fallen a change; And as a dead man’s face this place is strange!

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**Who acts:** Finola, orphans, place · **What happens:** draw, raise, drift, spy, have, fall · **To what, where:** orphans, Twas, high, hope, change

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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 (Finola, orphans, place), 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:pg78491:10:34
# text = More closely drew the orphans, each to each:-- ’Twas then Finola raised her dirge on high, As nearer yet they drifted to the beach In hope one fragment of past days to spy; ‘Upon our father’s house hath fallen a change; And as a dead man’s face this place is strange!
1	More	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
2	closely	closely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	orphans	orphan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	5	appos	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	’	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Twas	twa	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	16	advmod	_	_
15	Finola	Finola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	dirge	dirge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	As	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	nearer	near	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	parataxis	_	_
24	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	drifted	drift	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	In	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	33	nummod	_	_
33	fragment	fragment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	past	past	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	spy	spy	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
40	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	46	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
42	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	’s	's	PART	POS	_	43	case	_	_
45	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	_
46	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
47	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	ccomp	_	_
48	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	61	punct	_	_
51	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	61	cc	_	_
52	as	as	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
53	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
55	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	’s	's	PART	POS	_	55	case	_	_
57	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	obl	_	_
58	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	59	det	_	_
59	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	61	nsubj	_	_
60	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	61	cop	_	_
61	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
62	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past |  | the orphans |  |  |  | closely *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent orphan=Theme |
| 2 | **raise** | past | Finola | Twas |  | high | then | Finola's dirge *obj* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dirge=Theme on high=Destination |
| 3 | **drift** | past | orphans *= orphan* |  |  | hope and one fragment of past days |  | to the beach | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to beach=Source in hope=Trajectory |
| 4 | **spy** | to-infinitive | orphans *= orphan* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  |  | upon our father's house | tree rules |
| 6 | **fall** | participle |  | a change |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient change=Result |
| 7 | **is** | present | this place |  |  |  |  | as a dead man's face; strange *property* | tree rules |

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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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