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title: No tear they shed, but scowled Defiance on their lords and war-songs… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: No tear they shed, but scowled Defiance on their lords and war-songs sang Of Uladh and her vengeance. Who acts: tear, war songs. 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 eve
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 87

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No tear they shed, but scowled Defiance on their lords and war-songs sang Of Uladh and her vengeance.

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**Who acts:** tear, war songs · **What happens:** shed, scowl, sing · **To what, where:** Defiance

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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 (tear, war songs), 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:pg78491:15:89
# text = No tear they shed, but scowled Defiance on their lords and war-songs sang Of Uladh and her vengeance.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	tear	tear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	shed	shed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	scowled	scowl	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	Defiance	Defiance	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
16	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shed** | past | no tear |  |  |  |  | boys *= boy* *nsubj* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
| 2 | **scowl** | past | no tear *not said here* | Defiance |  |  |  | on boys's lords | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent defiance=Theme |
| 3 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | war songs |  |  |  |  | of Uladh and song's vengeance | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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