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title: Setanta heard Then first that cry forth issuing from the heart Of hi… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Setanta heard Then first that cry forth issuing from the heart Of him whose labour wins his children’s bread; That cry he honours yet. Who acts: Setanta, that, labour, cry. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11, with i
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 140

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Setanta heard Then first that cry forth issuing from the heart Of him whose labour wins his children’s bread; That cry he honours yet.

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**Who acts:** Setanta, that, labour, cry · **What happens:** hear, cry, issue, win, honour · **To what, where:** bread, heart · **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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Setanta, that, labour, cry), 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:pg78491:11:142
# text = Setanta heard Then first that cry forth issuing from the heart Of him whose labour wins his children’s bread; That cry he honours yet.
1	Setanta	Setanta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
4	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	6	advmod	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	cry	cry	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
7	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	issuing	issue	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
12	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nmod	_	_
14	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	labour	labour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	wins	win	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	cry	cry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	honours	honour	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Setanta |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | present | that |  |  |  | then | first, forth *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **issue** | gerund | that *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **win** | present | labour | Setanta's children's bread |  | the heart of Setanta |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bread=Theme from heart=Source |
| 5 | **honour** | present | that cry |  |  |  | yet |  | 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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