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title: But Lir knelt down upon the shining sand, And cried, ‘Though great t… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But Lir knelt down upon the shining sand, And cried, ‘Though great the might of Druid charms, Return and feel once more your native land, And find once more and fill your father’s arms!’ Who acts: Lir. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De V
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 4

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But Lir knelt down upon the shining sand, And cried, ‘Though great the might of Druid charms, Return and feel once more your native land, And find once more and fill your father’s arms!’

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**Who acts:** Lir · **What happens:** kneel down, shine, cry, feel, find, fill · **To what, where:** shining sand, arms

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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 (Lir), 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:pg78491:9:4
# text = But Lir knelt down upon the shining sand, And cried, ‘Though great the might of Druid charms, Return and feel once more your native land, And find once more and fill your father’s arms!’
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Lir	Lir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	knelt	kneel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	amod	_	_
8	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	ccomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Druid	Druid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	charms	charm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Return	Return	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
25	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	26	advmod	_	_
26	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
27	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
33	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	34	advmod	_	_
34	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	32	advmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
36	fill	fill	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
37	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’s	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **kneel down** | past | Lir |  |  | the shining sand |  | down *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon sand=Location |
| 2 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **feel** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 5 | **find** | present | Lir *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **fill** | infinitive | Lir *not said here* | your father's arms |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent arm=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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