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title: My little Conn, Find thou a warmer shelter ’neath my breast, As thou… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: My little Conn, Find thou a warmer shelter ’neath my breast, As thou art wont: thou art my little son! Who acts: little Conn. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 10, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 14

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My little Conn, Find thou a warmer shelter ’neath my breast, As thou art wont: thou art my little son!

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**Who acts:** little Conn · **What happens:** find · **To what, where:** thou

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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 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little Conn), 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:pg78491:10:14
# text = My little Conn, Find thou a warmer shelter ’neath my breast, As thou art wont: thou art my little son!
1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Conn	Conn	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	obj	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	warmer	warm	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	9	amod	_	_
9	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	neath	neath	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nsubj	_	_
17	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
18	wont	wont	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
20	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	21	nsubj	_	_
21	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | infinitive | My little Conn | thou |  |  |  | a warmer shelter *obj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent thou=Theme shelter=Attribute |

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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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