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title: The voice of man we list no more Till he, the Tailkenn, comes to sou… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: The voice of man we list no more Till he, the Tailkenn, comes to sound the knell Of darkness, and rings out his gladsome bell.’ Who acts: voice, Tailkenn. 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 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 55

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The voice of man we list no more Till he, the Tailkenn, comes to sound the knell Of darkness, and rings out his gladsome bell.’

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**Who acts:** voice, Tailkenn · **What happens:** list, come, sound, ring out, knell · **To what, where:** more, knell, gladsome bell, darkness

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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 (voice, Tailkenn), 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:pg78491:9:56
# text = The voice of man we list no more Till he, the Tailkenn, comes to sound the knell Of darkness, and rings out his gladsome bell.’
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	list	list	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	6	obj	_	_
9	Till	till	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Tailkenn	Tailkenn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	comes	come	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	sound	sound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	knell	knell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	darkness	darkness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	rings	ring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	out	out	ADP	RP	_	24	compound:prt	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
27	gladsome	gladsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	bell	bell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **list** | present | the voice of man | no more |  |  | till man | we *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | present | the Tailkenn |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **sound** | to-infinitive | the Tailkenn *not said here* | the knell of darkness |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location knell=Theme |
| 4 | **ring out** | present | the Tailkenn *not said here* | Tailkenn's gladsome bell |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme |
| 5 | **knell** |  |  | darkness |  |  |  |  | nom knell «event transitive»: of=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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