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title: For music then, like warfare, not from art Grew up laborious:--born… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: For music then, like warfare, not from art Grew up laborious:--born of frank good-will, ’Twas Joy’s loud clarion in the generous heart; Through pains more perfect grew the harper’s skill; Yet still from purest soul, and noblest breast The minstrelsy perforce became the best. Who acts: pains, noblest
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 9

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For music then, like warfare, not from art Grew up laborious:--born of frank good-will, ’Twas Joy’s loud clarion in the generous heart; Through pains more perfect grew the harper’s skill; Yet still from purest soul, and noblest breast The minstrelsy perforce became the best.

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**Who acts:** pains, noblest breast · **What happens:** grow up, bear, grow, become · **To what, where:** skill, purest soul

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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 (pains, noblest breast), 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:pg78491:4:9
# text = For music then, like warfare, not from art Grew up laborious:--born of frank good-will, ’Twas Joy’s loud clarion in the generous heart; Through pains more perfect grew the harper’s skill; Yet still from purest soul, and noblest breast The minstrelsy perforce became the best.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	warfare	warfare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
11	Grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	laborious	laborious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	born	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	frank	frank	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
23	’	'	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	Twas	Twas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Joy	Joy	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’s	's	PART	POS	_	25	case	_	_
27	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	clarion	clarion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	generous	generous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	Through	through	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	pains	pain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nsubj	_	_
36	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	37	amod	_	_
37	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
38	grew	grow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	harper	harper	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	’s	's	PART	POS	_	40	case	_	_
42	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
44	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
45	still	still	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
46	from	from	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	purest	pure	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	48	amod	_	_
48	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	56	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	56	cc	_	_
51	noblest	noble	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	52	amod	_	_
52	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
53	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
54	minstrelsy	minstrelsy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	55	compound	_	_
55	perforce	perforce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	56	nsubj	_	_
56	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
57	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	58	det	_	_
58	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	56	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow up** | past |  |  |  |  |  | music and warfare and art *conj*; laborious *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **bear** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | Twas Joy's loud clarion in the generous heart *conj* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **grow** | past | pains | the harper's skill |  | purest soul |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent skill=Product from soul=Material |
| 4 | **become** | past | noblest breast |  |  |  |  | the minstrelsy perforce *nsubj*; good *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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