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title: Thus likewise God, hearing His creatures moan, Will flash on them, a… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus likewise God, hearing His creatures moan, Will flash on them, and cry, “Mine own, mine own!” Who acts: God, creatures. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 3, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 36

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Thus likewise God, hearing His creatures moan, Will flash on them, and cry, “Mine own, mine own!”

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**Who acts:** God, creatures · **What happens:** hear, moan, flash, cry, own · **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 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, creatures), 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:pg78491:3:36
# text = Thus likewise God, hearing His creatures moan, Will flash on them, and cry, “Mine own, mine own!”
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	hearing	hear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	acl	_	_
6	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	moan	moan	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	flash	flash	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	cry	cry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	Mine	mine	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	own	own	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | gerund | God *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **moan** | present | fly's creatures |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **flash** | future | God |  |  |  |  | on woods *= wood* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Location |
| 4 | **cry** *speech: express* | infinitive | God *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **own** *in a quote* | present | God |  |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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