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title: Unless thou know’st what hand this Ogham traced Twine yonder berries… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: Unless thou know’st what hand this Ogham traced Twine yonder berries mid thy young bride’s locks, But spare to tempt that hand!’ Who acts: Unless know’st. 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
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 161

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Unless thou know’st what hand this Ogham traced Twine yonder berries mid thy young bride’s locks, But spare to tempt that hand!’

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**Who acts:** Unless know’st · **What happens:** hand, trace, spare, tempt · **To what, where:** Twine, hand

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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 (Unless know’st), 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:pg78491:11:163
# text = Unless thou know’st what hand this Ogham traced Twine yonder berries mid thy young bride’s locks, But spare to tempt that hand!’
1	Unless	unless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj	_	_
3	know’st	know'	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	8	nsubj	_	_
4	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
5	hand	hand	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	acl:relcl	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	Ogham	Ogham	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	traced	trace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Twine	twine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	yonder	yonder	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
11	berries	berry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
12	mid	mid	X	AFX	_	11	acl:relcl	_	_
13	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	bride	bride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	spare	spare	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	tempt	tempt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hand** | present |  |  |  |  |  | what *obj* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme |
| 2 | **trace** | past | Unless know’st  thou | Twine |  |  |  | this Ogham *nsubj*; berries and thy young bride's locks *obj*; yonder *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **spare** | infinitive | Unless know’st  thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **tempt** | to-infinitive | Unless know’st  thou *not said here* | that hand |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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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