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title: The heroic song hath sorrows, but not sighs; The heroic legend tende… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The heroic song hath sorrows, but not sighs; The heroic legend tender is, yet hard; With grief alike, and joy, can sympathise, Yet keeps the heroic heart from weakness barred. Who acts: heroic song, heroic legend tender, joy. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's he
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 10

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The heroic song hath sorrows, but not sighs; The heroic legend tender is, yet hard; With grief alike, and joy, can sympathise, Yet keeps the heroic heart from weakness barred.

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**Who acts:** heroic song, heroic legend tender, joy · **What happens:** have, be, sympathise, keep, bar · **To what, where:** sorrows, heroic heart, weakness

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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 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heroic song, heroic legend tender, joy), 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:pg78491:5:10
# text = The heroic song hath sorrows, but not sighs; The heroic legend tender is, yet hard; With grief alike, and joy, can sympathise, Yet keeps the heroic heart from weakness barred.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	heroic	heroic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	hath	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	sorrows	sorrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	sighs	sigh	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
11	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
12	heroic	heroic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	legend	legend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	tender	tender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	With	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	alike	alike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
25	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	sympathise	sympathise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	Yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	keeps	keep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	heroic	heroic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	weakness	weakness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	_
37	barred	bar	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | the heroic song | sorrows but sighs |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorrow=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | the heroic legend tender |  |  |  |  | with grief; hard *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **sympathise** | can | joy |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **keep** | present | the heroic song *not said here* | the heroic heart |  | weakness |  |  | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer heart=Beneficiary from weakness=Eventuality |
| 5 | **bar** | participle |  | weakness *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Causer |

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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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