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title: Through grief that night He slept not; for the Magic Clan had power,… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Through grief that night He slept not; for the Magic Clan had power, Though dead, to lean above him as a cloud Darkening his spirit. Who acts: strength, Magic Clan, cloud. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12, with it
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 106

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Through grief that night He slept not; for the Magic Clan had power, Though dead, to lean above him as a cloud Darkening his spirit.

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**Who acts:** strength, Magic Clan, cloud · **What happens:** not sleep, have, lean, darken · **To what, where:** grief, power, spirit

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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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strength, Magic Clan, cloud), 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:pg78491:12:108
# text = Through grief that night He slept not; for the Magic Clan had power, Though dead, to lean above him as a cloud Darkening his spirit.
1	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	slept	sleep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Magic	Magic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	Clan	Clan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
14	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	lean	lean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
21	above	above	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	Darkening	darken	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	25	acl	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **sleep** | past | strength |  |  | grief | night |  | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **have** | past | the Magic Clan | power |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 3 | **lean** | to-infinitive | the Magic Clan *not said here* |  |  |  |  | above strength; as a cloud | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above he=Location |
| 4 | **darken** | gerund | a cloud *not said here* | strength's spirit |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent spirit=Patient |

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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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