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title: The men who saw that deathbed did not weep, But gazed till sunset up… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The men who saw that deathbed did not weep, But gazed till sunset upon each fair face; And then with funeral psalm, and anthems deep, Interred them at that sacred altar’s base, And graved their names in Ogham characters On one white tomb; and, close beneath them, Lir’s. Who acts: men, deathbed, anth
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 79

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The men who saw that deathbed did not weep, But gazed till sunset upon each fair face; And then with funeral psalm, and anthems deep, Interred them at that sacred altar’s base, And graved their names in Ogham characters On one white tomb; and, close beneath them, Lir’s.

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**Who acts:** men, deathbed, anthems · **What happens:** see, not weep, gaze, inter, grave, name · **To what, where:** anthems, base, names, Ogham characters · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (men, deathbed, anthems), 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:pg78491:10:79
# text = The men who saw that deathbed did not weep, But gazed till sunset upon each fair face; And then with funeral psalm, and anthems deep, Interred them at that sacred altar’s base, And graved their names in Ogham characters On one white tomb; and, close beneath them, Lir’s.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	deathbed	deathbed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	weep	weep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
13	till	till	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	sunset	sunset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
17	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
21	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	24	advmod	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	funeral	funeral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	psalm	psalm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	anthems	anthem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	Interred	inter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	28	conj	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
33	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	det	_	_
34	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	’s	's	PART	POS	_	35	case	_	_
37	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
39	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	graved	grave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
41	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	42	nmod:poss	_	_
42	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obj	_	_
43	in	in	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	Ogham	Ogham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
46	On	on	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
47	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	49	nummod	_	_
48	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	tomb	tomb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	53	punct	_	_
51	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
53	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
54	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
57	Lir	Lir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	’s	's	PART	POS	_	57	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the men |  |  |  |  | with funeral psalm; who *nsubj* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **not** **weep** | past · do-support | deathbed |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **gaze** | past | the men *not said here* |  |  |  | sunset | upon each fair face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon face=Theme |
| 4 | **inter** | participle | the men *not said here* | anthems *= anthem* |  | that sacred altar's base |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **grave** | past | the men *not said here* | anthems's names |  | Ogham characters |  | on one white tomb | tree rules |
| 6 | **name** |  | anthems *= anthem* |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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