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title: Then wept to her in turn the younger three; ‘Alas the sharp rocks an… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then wept to her in turn the younger three; ‘Alas the sharp rocks and the salt sea-foam! Who acts: Alas. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 9, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 49

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Then wept to her in turn the younger three; ‘Alas the sharp rocks and the salt sea-foam!

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**Who acts:** Alas · **What happens:** weep, rock · **To what, where:** Finola, turn

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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 (Alas), 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:pg78491:9:50
# text = Then wept to her in turn the younger three; ‘Alas the sharp rocks and the salt sea-foam!
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	turn	turn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	younger	young	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	amod	_	_
9	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Alas	Alas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	rocks	rock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
19	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	foam	foam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weep** | past |  |  | Finola | turn | then |  | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient |
| 2 | **rock** |  | Alas |  |  |  |  | the salt sea foam *conj* | 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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