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title: In grief’s worst hour A germ of thine shall breed that quenchless Fa… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: In grief’s worst hour A germ of thine shall breed that quenchless Faith Amaranth of life, and asphodel of death. Who acts: germ. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 8, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 26

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In grief’s worst hour A germ of thine shall breed that quenchless Faith Amaranth of life, and asphodel of death.

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**Who acts:** germ · **What happens:** breed · **To what, where:** Faith Amaranth

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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 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (germ), 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:pg78491:8:26
# text = In grief’s worst hour A germ of thine shall breed that quenchless Faith Amaranth of life, and asphodel of death.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
2	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’s	's	PART	POS	_	2	case	_	_
4	worst	bad	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	5	amod	_	_
5	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
6	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	germ	germ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	thine	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	nmod	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	breed	breed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
13	quenchless	quenchless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Faith	Faith	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Amaranth	Amaranth	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	asphodel	asphodel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **breed** | shall | a germ of thine | that Faith Amaranth of life |  |  | hour |  | tree rules |

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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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