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title: And thus Finola sang, while, far and near, The men of Erin wept that… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: And thus Finola sang, while, far and near, The men of Erin wept that strain to hear: Who acts: Finola, men. 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 51

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And thus Finola sang, while, far and near, The men of Erin wept that strain to hear:

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**Who acts:** Finola, men · **What happens:** sing, weep, hear · **To what, where:** strain

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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 (Finola, men), 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:pg78491:9:52
# text = And thus Finola sang, while, far and near, The men of Erin wept that strain to hear:
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	Finola	Finola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sang	sing	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
6	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	near	near	ADV	RB	_	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Erin	Erin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
16	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
18	strain	strain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Finola |  |  |  |  | far, thus *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
| 2 | **weep** | past | the men of Erin | that strain |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent strain=Theme |
| 3 | **hear** | to-infinitive | the men of Erin *not said here* | that strain *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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