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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 69

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Thou too shalt feel the weight of Druid power: From age to age thy penance ne’er shall cease: Our doom, though long it lasts, shall end in peace.’

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**Who acts:** Thou, age, Our · **What happens:** feel, age, cease, last, end, doom · **To what, where:** weight, penance ne’er, peace

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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 (Thou, age, Our), 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:pg78491:8:69
# text = Thou too shalt feel the weight of Druid power: From age to age thy penance ne’er shall cease: Our doom, though long it lasts, shall end in peace.’
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj	_	_
2	too	too	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	shalt	shall	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	Druid	Druid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	From	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	age	age	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	acl	_	_
15	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	penance	penance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	ne’er	ne'er	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	cease	cease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	doom	doom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	though	though	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
26	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	lasts	last	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	end	end	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **feel** | shall | Thou | the weight of Druid power |  |  |  | Our doom *parataxis*; long *property* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme |
| 2 | **age** | to-infinitive | age *not said here* | thy penance ne’er |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ne'er=Patient |
| 3 | **cease** | shall | age |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **last** | present | age |  |  |  |  |  | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **end** | shall |  |  |  | peace |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 6 | **doom** |  | Our |  |  |  |  |  | nom doom «event transitive»: 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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