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title: A hundred harps Rang out together, and the feast was o’er: Murmured… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: A hundred harps Rang out together, and the feast was o’er: Murmured the rose-red lips; but what they said He heard not. Who acts: hundred harps, feast, harp, Ferdīa. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13, with its depe
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 78

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A hundred harps Rang out together, and the feast was o’er: Murmured the rose-red lips; but what they said He heard not.

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**Who acts:** hundred harps, feast, harp, Ferdīa · **What happens:** ring out, be, murmur, say, not hear · **To what, where:** red lips · **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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hundred harps, feast, harp, Ferdīa), 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:pg78491:13:80
# text = A hundred harps Rang out together, and the feast was o’er: Murmured the rose-red lips; but what they said He heard not.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	harps	harp	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	Rang	ring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	feast	feast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
12	o’er	o'	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	Murmured	murmur	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
16	rose	rose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	lips	lip	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	24	obj	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
25	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	ccomp	_	_
27	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ring out** | past | hundred harps |  |  |  |  | out, together *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the feast |  |  |  |  | o' *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **murmur** *speech: other* | participle | the feast *not said here* | the red lips |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | harp |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **not** **hear** | past | Ferdīa |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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