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title: Finola raised the funeral cry: ‘We tread our native land that we may… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Finola raised the funeral cry: ‘We tread our native land that we may die!’ Who acts: Finola, We, native land. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 66

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Finola raised the funeral cry: ‘We tread our native land that we may die!’

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**Who acts:** Finola, We, native land · **What happens:** raise, tread, die · **To what, where:** funeral cry, native land

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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, We, native land), 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:pg78491:10:66
# text = Finola raised the funeral cry: ‘We tread our native land that we may die!’
1	Finola	Finola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	raised	raise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	tread	tread	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | past | Finola | the funeral cry |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme |
| 2 | **tread** | present | We | our native land |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location land=Theme |
| 3 | **die** | may | our native land |  |  |  |  | we *nsubj* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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