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title: And what that thunder sound of many seas But music of their coming? — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And what that thunder sound of many seas But music of their coming? Who acts: children. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 109

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And what that thunder sound of many seas But music of their coming?

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**Who acts:** children · **What happens:** come · **To what, where:** music

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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 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children), 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:pg78491:15:111
# text = And what that thunder sound of many seas But music of their coming?
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	2	cc	_	_
2	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
4	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	seas	sea	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | gerund | children *= child* | music *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location music=Theme |

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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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