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title: But on Meave A piercing sadness fell; and by her bed Orloff her buri… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But on Meave A piercing sadness fell; and by her bed Orloff her buried son stood up, and spake; ‘Home to thy native realm, and Cruachan! Who acts: piercing sadness. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 14, with its depen
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 157

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But on Meave A piercing sadness fell; and by her bed Orloff her buried son stood up, and spake; ‘Home to thy native realm, and Cruachan!

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**Who acts:** piercing sadness · **What happens:** fall, bury, stand up · **To what, where:** Home, Meave, spake

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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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (piercing sadness), 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:pg78491:14:159
# text = But on Meave A piercing sadness fell; and by her bed Orloff her buried son stood up, and spake; ‘Home to thy native realm, and Cruachan!
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	on	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Meave	Meave	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	piercing	piercing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	sadness	sadness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	bed	bed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
13	Orloff	orloff	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
15	buried	bury	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	amod	_	_
16	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	up	up	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
23	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	Cruachan	Cruachan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	31	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | a piercing sadness | Home to thy native realm |  | Meave |  | Cruachan *parataxis* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on meave=Location |
| 2 | **bury** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **stand up** | past | a piercing sadness *not said here* | spake |  |  |  | by sadness's bed orloff sadness's buried son | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by bed=Location |

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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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