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title: He had not chosen her: She chose a consort who should rule her not,… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: He had not chosen her: She chose a consort who should rule her not, And tossed him to her throne. Who acts: husband, warrioress, consort. 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 pragmati
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 15

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He had not chosen her: She chose a consort who should rule her not, And tossed him to her throne.

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**Who acts:** husband, warrioress, consort · **What happens:** not choose, choose, not rule, toss · **To what, where:** warrioress, consort, husband, throne

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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 (husband, warrioress, consort), 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:pg78491:11:17
# text = He had not chosen her: She chose a consort who should rule her not, And tossed him to her throne.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
7	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	consort	consort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	rule	rule	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	tossed	toss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **choose** | past · perfect | husband | warrioress |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme |
| 2 | **choose** | past | warrioress | a consort |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consort=Theme |
| 3 | **not** **rule** | should | a consort | warrioress |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Result |
| 4 | **toss** | past | warrioress *not said here* | husband | warrioress's throne |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Patient to throne=Recipient |

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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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