--- title: But when she found no gentle brother near, And heard the great storm… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: But when she found no gentle brother near, And heard the great storm roaring far away, Anguish of anguish pierced her heart, and fear, And thus she made her moan and sang her lay: ‘Death-cold they lie along the far sea-tide: Would that as cold I drifted at their side!’ Who acts: Finola, great storm, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/9/65/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The foray of Queen Meave, and other le…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/) / [Opening, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/9/) / 65 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 65 But when she found no gentle brother near, And heard the great storm roaring far away, Anguish of anguish pierced her heart, and fear, And thus she made her moan and sang her lay: ‘Death-cold they lie along the far sea-tide: Would that as cold I drifted at their side!’ **Who acts:** Finola, great storm, anguish, lay, I · **What happens:** find, hear, roar, pierce, make, sing · **To what, where:** gentle brother, great storm, heart, moan, lay, Death cold 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, great storm, anguish, lay), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78491:9:66 # text = But when she found no gentle brother near, And heard the great storm roaring far away, Anguish of anguish pierced her heart, and fear, And thus she made her moan and sang her lay: ‘Death-cold they lie along the far sea-tide: Would that as cold I drifted at their side!’ 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 2 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 4 advmod _ _ 3 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 advcl _ _ 5 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 7 det _ _ 6 gentle gentle ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 brother brother NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 8 near near ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 And and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 heard hear VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 storm storm NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ _ 15 roaring roar VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 14 acl _ _ 16 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 17 advmod _ _ 17 away away ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Anguish Anguish PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 appos _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 anguish anguish NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ _ 22 pierced pierce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 23 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 fear fear NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 29 And and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 30 thus thus ADV RB _ 32 advmod _ _ 31 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 32 nsubj _ _ 32 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 33 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 34 nmod:poss _ _ 34 moan moan NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 36 sang sing VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 conj _ _ 37 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 lay lay NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 39 : : PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 40 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 Death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 42 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 cold cold NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 44 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 45 lie lie VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 parataxis _ _ 46 along along ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 51 det _ _ 48 far far ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 51 amod _ _ 49 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 50 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 49 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 51 tide tide NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 52 : : PUNCT : _ 56 punct _ _ 53 Would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 56 aux _ _ 54 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 56 nsubj _ _ 55 as as ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 cold cold ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 parataxis _ _ 57 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 58 nsubj _ _ 58 drifted drift VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 56 conj _ _ 59 at at ADP IN _ 61 case _ _ 60 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 61 nmod:poss _ _ 61 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 58 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 62 ! ! PUNCT . _ 56 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 63 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | Finola | no gentle brother | | | | near *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Topic | | 2 | **hear** | past | | the great storm | | | | fear *conj* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer storm=Stimulus | | 3 | **roar** | gerund | the great storm *not said here* | | | | | away *property* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **pierce** | participle | anguish *not said here* | Finola's heart | | | | | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | | 5 | **make** | past | Finola | Finola's moan | | | | thus *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moan=Product | | 6 | **sing** *speech: express* | past | Finola *not said here* | Finola's lay | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lay=Theme | | 7 | **lie** | present | lay | Death cold | | the far sea tide | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along tide=Location | | 8 | **drift** | past | I | | | lay's side | | | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at side=Trajectory | | 9 | **moan** | | Finola | | | | | | nom moan «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 64](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/9/64/) - next →: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/9/66/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/9/)