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title: Bid the Red Branch Knights Attend me in Murthemné. — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bid the Red Branch Knights Attend me in Murthemné. Who acts: you, Branch Knights. A sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 110

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Bid the Red Branch Knights Attend me in Murthemné.

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**Who acts:** you, Branch Knights · **What happens:** bid, attend · **To what, where:** me, Murthemné

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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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Branch Knights), 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:pg78491:11:112
# text = Bid the Red Branch Knights Attend me in Murthemné.
1	Bid	bid	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	Red	Red	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
4	Branch	Branch	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Knights	Knight	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	Attend	attend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
7	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Murthemné	Murthemné	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bid** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **attend** | present | the Branch Knights |  | me | Murthemné |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Goal |

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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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