--- title: And louder soon her dirge-like anthem rang: ‘Lo, thus the Children’s… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: And louder soon her dirge-like anthem rang: ‘Lo, thus the Children’s burial I decree: Make fair our grave where land and ocean meet; And t’ward thy holy Altar place our feet. Who acts: like anthem, I, land, Children. 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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 (like anthem, I, land, Children), 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:pg78491:10:68 # text = And louder soon her dirge-like anthem rang: ‘Lo, thus the Children’s burial I decree: Make fair our grave where land and ocean meet; And t’ward thy holy Altar place our feet. 1 And and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 2 louder loud ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 9 advmod _ _ 3 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 9 advmod _ _ 4 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 5 dirge dirge NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 6 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 like like ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 anthem anthem NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 rang ring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 : : PUNCT : _ 9 punct _ _ 11 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 Lo lo INTJ UH _ 9 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 thus thus ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 Children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ’s 's PART POS _ 16 case _ _ 18 burial burial NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ _ 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 decree decree VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 21 : : PUNCT : _ 22 punct _ _ 22 Make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 advcl _ _ 23 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 24 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 grave grave NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 30 advmod _ _ 27 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 29 cc _ _ 29 ocean ocean NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 conj _ _ 30 meet meet VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 ; ; PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 32 And and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 33 t’ward t'ward ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 34 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 37 nmod:poss _ _ 35 holy holy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 36 Altar Altar PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 compound _ _ 37 place place NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ _ 38 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 feet foot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ring** | past | Finola's like anthem | | | | | the Children's burial *parataxis*; thy holy Altar place and our feet *parataxis*; soon *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **decree** | present | I | the Children's burial *not said here* | | | | | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burial=Theme | | 3 | **make** | infinitive | Finola's like anthem *not said here* | our grave | | | | fair *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset grave=Product | | 4 | **meet** | present | land and ocean | | | | | | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **bury** | | the Children | | | | | | nom burial «event transitive»: poss=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 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/10/67/) - next →: [sentence 69](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/10/69/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/10/)