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title: I, child of kings, henceforth Abide, thy watch-hound, warder of thy… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: I, child of kings, henceforth Abide, thy watch-hound, warder of thy house.” 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 143

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I, child of kings, henceforth Abide, thy watch-hound, warder of thy house.”

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**To what, where:** I

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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: 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:pg78491:11:145
# text = I, child of kings, henceforth Abide, thy watch-hound, warder of thy house.”
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	henceforth	henceforth	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	Abide	Abide	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	nmod:poss	_	_
11	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	hound	hound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	warder	warder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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