The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 7

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, each, our · What happens: see, add, be, bring, make, hear · To what, where: grief, pain, part relief, ours, us, music

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.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 saw	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
3	Finola	Finola	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 father	nmod:poss
6	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grief	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 father	case
8	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj
9	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 added	nsubj
10	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 grief	acl:relcl
11	thus	thus	ADV	_	10 added	advmod
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 sad	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 sad	punct
14	Albeit	albeit	ADP	_	16 days	case
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 days	nmod:poss
16	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sad	obl
17	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 sad	cop
18	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 saw	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 brings	punct
20	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 twilight	det
21	twilight	twilight	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 brings	nsubj
22	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 sad	conj
23	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 pain	nmod:poss
24	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 brings	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 relief	case
26	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 relief	compound
27	relief	relief	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 brings	obl
28	:	:	PUNCT	_	32 ours	punct
29	And	and	CCONJ	_	32 ours	cc
30	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 ours	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 ours	cop
32	ours	our	PRON	Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 saw	obl
33	by	by	ADP	_	34 night	case
34	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 make	obl
35	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 make	nsubj
36	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	parataxis
37	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 make	obj
38	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 make	xcomp
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	44 hears	punct
40	Yea	yea	INTJ	_	44 hears	discourse
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 Yea	punct
42	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	44 hears	nsubj
43	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 hears	nsubj
44	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 make	parataxis
45	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 music	nmod:poss
46	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 hears	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 grieve	punct
48	though	though	SCONJ	_	50 grieve	mark
49	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 grieve	nsubj
50	grieve	grieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 hears	conj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 Rejoices	punct
52	Rejoices	rejoice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 hears	conj
53	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	52 Rejoices	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, 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

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.

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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 7