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title: Terror died, And rapture came instead, and mystic mirth They knew no… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Terror died, And rapture came instead, and mystic mirth They knew not whence: and thus Finola cried: ‘Brothers! the Tailkenn treads our Erin’s earth!’ Who acts: Terror, rapture, mystic mirth, Finola. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Ver
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 59

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Terror died, And rapture came instead, and mystic mirth They knew not whence: and thus Finola cried: ‘Brothers! the Tailkenn treads our Erin’s earth!’

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**Who acts:** Terror, rapture, mystic mirth, Finola, Tailkenn · **What happens:** die, come, not know, cry, tread · **To what, where:** Brothers

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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 (Terror, rapture, mystic mirth, 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:pg78491:10:59
# text = Terror died, And rapture came instead, and mystic mirth They knew not whence: and thus Finola cried: ‘Brothers! the Tailkenn treads our Erin’s earth!’
1	Terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	rapture	rapture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	instead	instead	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
10	mystic	mystic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	mirth	mirth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
15	whence	whence	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	Finola	Finola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
22	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	Brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Tailkenn	Tailkenn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	treads	tread	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	conj	_	_
28	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’s	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | past | Terror |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **come** | past | rapture |  |  |  |  | instead *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **know** | past | mystic mirth |  |  |  |  | Twas *= twa* *nsubj*; whence *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Finola |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **tread** | present | the Tailkenn | Brothers |  |  |  | our Erin's earth *obj* | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location earth=Theme |

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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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