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title: Lulled by that strain the prophet king let drop In death his Druid-S… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Lulled by that strain the prophet king let drop In death his Druid-Staff by Darvra’s side; And there in later years with happy hope King Lir, that mystic requiem listening, died: And there those blissful sufferers bore their wrong All day in weeping, and all night in song. Who acts: prophet king, th
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 36

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Lulled by that strain the prophet king let drop In death his Druid-Staff by Darvra’s side; And there in later years with happy hope King Lir, that mystic requiem listening, died: And there those blissful sufferers bore their wrong All day in weeping, and all night in song.

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**Who acts:** prophet king, that, King, blissful sufferers · **What happens:** lull, strain, let, drop, listening, die · **To what, where:** Druid, death, wrong

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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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prophet king, that, King, blissful sufferers), 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:pg78491:9:36
# text = Lulled by that strain the prophet king let drop In death his Druid-Staff by Darvra’s side; And there in later years with happy hope King Lir, that mystic requiem listening, died: And there those blissful sufferers bore their wrong All day in weeping, and all night in song.
1	Lulled	lull	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	amod	_	_
2	by	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	obl	_	_
4	strain	strain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	prophet	prophet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
9	drop	drop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
10	In	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	Druid	druid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	-	-	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	Staff	staff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	Darvra	Darvra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	’s	's	PART	POS	_	17	case	_	_
19	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	37	punct	_	_
21	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
22	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	37	expl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	later	late	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	25	amod	_	_
25	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	obl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	happy	happy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
29	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
30	Lir	Lir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	35	nsubj	_	_
33	mystic	mystic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
34	requiem	requiem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	compound	_	_
35	listening	listening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
37	died	die	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
39	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
40	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	44	expl	_	_
41	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	43	det	_	_
42	blissful	blissful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	sufferers	sufferer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
44	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
45	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	44	obj	_	_
47	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	48	det	_	_
48	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl:unmarked	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	weeping	weeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
53	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	54	det	_	_
54	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
55	in	in	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
56	song	song	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lull** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by that | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **strain** | present |  |  |  |  | night |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **let** | past | the prophet king |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **drop** | infinitive | the prophet king *not said here* | King's Druid and Staff |  | death |  | by Darvra's side | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent druid=Theme in death=Destination by side=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **listening** |  | that |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **die** | past | King |  |  | there | year | with happy hope | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 7 | **bear** | past | that blissful sufferers | sufferers's wrong |  | there | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrong=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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