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title: But when Finola saw her father’s grief She added thus: ‘Albeit our d… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: But when Finola saw her father’s grief She added thus: ‘Albeit our days are sad, The twilight brings our pain in part relief: And songs are ours by night that make us glad: Yea, each that hears our music, though he grieve, Rejoices more. Who acts: Finola, twilight, songs, that. A sentence of «The fo
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 7

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But when Finola saw her father’s grief She added thus: ‘Albeit our days are sad, The twilight brings our pain in part relief: And songs are ours by night that make us glad: Yea, each that hears our music, though he grieve, Rejoices more.

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**Who acts:** Finola, twilight, songs, that, each, our · **What happens:** see, add, be, bring, make, hear · **To what, where:** grief, pain, part relief, ours, us, music

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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, twilight, songs, that), 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:pg78491:9:7
# text = But when Finola saw her father’s grief She added thus: ‘Albeit our days are sad, The twilight brings our pain in part relief: And songs are ours by night that make us glad: Yea, each that hears our music, though he grieve, Rejoices more.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
3	Finola	Finola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	’s	's	PART	POS	_	6	case	_	_
8	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
9	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	added	add	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
11	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
13	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	Albeit	albeit	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
17	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
18	sad	sad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	twilight	twilight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	relief	relief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
29	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
32	ours	our	PRON	PRP	Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
35	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	36	nsubj	_	_
36	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
37	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	glad	glad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	44	punct	_	_
40	Yea	yea	INTJ	UH	_	44	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
42	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	44	nsubj	_	_
43	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	44	nsubj	_	_
44	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	parataxis	_	_
45	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
48	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
49	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj	_	_
50	grieve	grieve	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	44	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
52	Rejoices	rejoice	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	44	conj	_	_
53	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	52	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | Finola | Finola's father's grief |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grief=Stimulus |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | Finola | Finola's father's grief *not said here* |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grief=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | Finola *not said here* |  |  |  | day | sad *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **bring** | present | the twilight | our pain |  | part relief |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent pain=Theme |
| 5 | **is a** | present | songs | ours |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **make** | present | that | us |  |  | night | glad *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset we=Product |
| 7 | **hear** | present | each | our music |  |  |  | that *nsubj* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer music=Stimulus |
| 8 | **grieve** | infinitive | twilight |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **rejoice** | present | each *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 10 | **pain** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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