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title: Then Leagh went forth Groaning, and smote his hands, and wept aloud… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Leagh went forth Groaning, and smote his hands, and wept aloud ‘Because he will not wake the host must die!’ Who acts: Leagh, host. 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 pragmatic
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 228

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Then Leagh went forth Groaning, and smote his hands, and wept aloud ‘Because he will not wake the host must die!’

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**Who acts:** Leagh, host · **What happens:** go, groan, smite, weep, not wake, die · **To what, where:** hands

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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 (Leagh, host), 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:pg78491:15:230
# text = Then Leagh went forth Groaning, and smote his hands, and wept aloud ‘Because he will not wake the host must die!’
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Leagh	Leagh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	Groaning	groan	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	aloud	aloud	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	Because	because	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	wake	wake	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | Leagh |  |  |  | then |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **groan** | gerund | Leagh *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **smite** | past | Leagh *not said here* | Leagh's hands |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hand=Experiencer |
| 4 | **weep** | past | Leagh *not said here* |  |  |  |  | aloud *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **wake** | future | Leagh |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **die** | must | the host |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |

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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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