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title: And though till then no war-song she had sung That hour her song gre… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And though till then no war-song she had sung That hour her song grew warlike as his own! Who acts: voice, song. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 4, 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 4, sentence 42

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And though till then no war-song she had sung That hour her song grew warlike as his own!

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**Who acts:** voice, song · **What happens:** sing, grow

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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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, song), 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:pg78491:4:42
# text = And though till then no war-song she had sung That hour her song grew warlike as his own!
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
2	though	though	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
3	till	till	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
5	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
6	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	sung	sing	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	That	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl:unmarked	_	_
14	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
17	warlike	warlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	xcomp	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past · perfect | voice |  |  |  | till no war song; hour | though *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **grow** | past | voice's song |  |  |  |  | warlike *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **sing** |  | voice |  |  |  |  |  | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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